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Today, Mayor Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein announced that the city's high school graduation rate was 60.7% for 2008, "marking the first time the City’s graduation rate has surpassed 60 percent according to the State Education Department, which released the data today." Bloomberg is using the data to bolster his case for continuing mayoral control of schools: The graduation rate went up 3.6 percentage points between 2007 and 2008 and "the graduation rate among English Language Learners rose more than 10 percentage points between 2007 and 2008." The dropout rate is now at a new low of 13.5%, after falling 3.3 points between 2007 and 2008. Bloomberg said, "After years of near stagnation, our reforms have increased the graduation rate each year since we’ve been in office—and I’m so proud to see that graduation rates are up again this year. This year, English and math scores went way up, schools got much safer, and many more of our high school seniors have earned their diplomas. This is a great day for New York City schools."
City's High School Graduation Rate At Highest Ever
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This would be great news if Bloomberg hadn't worked to lower requirements and standards for graduation years ago so these numbers would continue to be artificially inflated.
I met a girl who graduated last year who couldn't divide ten by two who, with a straight face, asked "What's the point of math?".
This is our future ladies and gents, make sure to have your helmets ready.
It was worse before Bloomberg. Remember Social Promotions and Livingston Street?
I refuse to go to McDonalds anymore. Not just because the food sucks but the idiots that work there can't get the orders straight. It's been about six years that I've gone there, not just here in the city but out there beyond the river. And you know what? The assholes can't get three burgers and a fries order correct.
Not just once or twice in a row but about twenty times in a row. What are these people going to do in the future?
This society needs a cleansing and I would start by taking out anyone who works at McDonalds.
Minus one observant Jewish girl...
It's been a while since I've been in HS but I remember the passing grade for the Physics regent was lowered from 60 to 50 since so many students were failing it.
Not all the students are like the girl you met. I know many kids who don't settle for anything less than an A and sleep only 1 hour for a regular class exam. This can easily also be our future. =)
the old "lower the bar, raise the gradation rate" scam. this notable yet dubious statistic surely has nothing to do with mayor napoleon running for a third term.
Even if stats weren't being padded, the fact of the matter is that future prospects for most of these graduates are just as awful than if they didn't graduate. It's not the school system's fault anymore than it is that of bad parenting and being disadvantaged in the first place, but let's stop padding stats to pretend like the city's education problem is gradually being fixed.
As the parent of a graduating senior this year I can tell you that I fully supported the mayor's plan to gain control, until he monumentally fucked it up and the students suffered. On this issue alone he should be shown the door.
My daughter, disappointed that she couldn't vote for Obama, has found solace in the fact that her first vote will be for anyone other than this pompous, lying, megalomaniac.
Can someone please explain to me why anyone should be patting themselves on the back because only 40% of kids don't finish high school?!
that's what I was going to post, 60.4 percent is nothing to brag about. and there's still social promotions going on. how bout we find out this number, how many students are being left back? repeating a grade was almost common in the 50's and 60's.
I was always pretty good at math, but can someone explain to me if there is a 60.7% graduation rate and a 13.5% drop out rate, what the hell happens to the other 25.8% of the students? Do they just move away, get shot and killed in drive by shootings, OD on drugs, enter convents? What?
They're late with my fucking Mocha Frappuccino.
Relax. Relax. Since Starbucks is going over to the new pot every 24 minutes from the previous 30 minutes it takes time to retrain the staff.
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