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Consider this a warm-up to the election! Yesterday, City Comptroller Bill Thompson accused the Department of Education of inflating graduation stats. His audit noted, "The permanent records of one out of every 10 graduated students sampled did not indicate that graduation requirements had been met," (90,000 students between 2003 and 2007 were in the sample) and "Schools routinely awarded students multiple credits for passing the same course two or more times."

The NY State Education Department has finally released graduation rates for 2007, and across the state, the rate is 68.5%. In NYC, the graduation rate is 52.2% (or 55.8% with summer school students--check out this NY Times article about summer school students), which means that the four-year graduation rate has been above 50% for the first time. State Education Commissioner Richard Mills said, "The bottom line is graduation rates are improving and they need to improve more."