This gave a mixed bag of articles one of which said that in 2006 the graduation rate there had dipped to 58%.
That rate is actually pretty good for an inner city school esp since Garfield usually has a higher rate:
It is no surprise that more students drop out of high school in big cities than elsewhere. Now, however, a nationwide study shows the magnitude of the gap: the average high school graduation rate in the nation’s 50 largest cities was 53 percent, compared with 71 percent in the suburbs.
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But that urban-suburban gap, which in part is due to hundreds of failing city schools that some researchers call dropout factories, was far wider in some areas.
In Cleveland, for instance, where the gap was largest, only 38 percent of high school freshmen graduated within four years, compared with 80 percent in the Cleveland suburbs, the report said. In Baltimore, which has the nation’s second-largest gap, 41 percent of students graduate from city schools, compared with 81 percent in the suburbs.
New York also had a large gap, with 54 percent of freshmen graduating within four years from schools in the city, compared with 83 percent from suburban high schools.
nytimes.com
I know that isn't today and that city officials, or maybe county officials, or maybe both were working to turn this around. However, since this is your example of one thing that may work to provide solid education for welfare kids I don't think, on the evidence presented, it demonstrates that.
Given the dropout rates in other cities, I have to disagree with you.
And let me remind you, I said it would take probably two generations before a major dent has been made in the poverty cycle. There is a lot to overcome. |
