[Updated]
Education Week has come out with another study on graduation rates. Baltimore has the 3rd worst graduation rate in the nation.
Almost two-thirds of Baltimore high school students fail to get diplomas, a figure so low that it ranks as the nation's third-worst, according to a study released by the publication Education Week.
Only 34.6 percent of Baltimore high school students graduated four years after they began school, according to the study, which analyzed 2004 data. The only school systems with worse figures were Detroit and Cleveland, where the graduation rates were 24.9 percent and 34.1 percent, respectively.
Baltimore schools officials disputed Education Week's new findings, just as they did last year when the journal reported that the city's graduation rate was 38.5 percent in 2003, which ranked as the nation's second-worst, behind Detroit with 21.7 percent.
Although Baltimore's graduation rate dropped nearly 4 percentage points from 2003 to 2004, according to Education Week, its ranking moved up a notch to third-worst because of falling figures in Cleveland.
A Baltimore schools official said the system's graduation rate was 54.3 percent for 2004 and that the figure rose to 60 percent last year.
[ UPDATE ]
I'll write this again.
In Baltimore, there is no core group of parents who give a damn. In politics, you get what you deserve. When parents don't care enough about their kids, when they don't care enough to pressure schools, administration, and politicians, you get what you get in Baltimore.
You get massive failure. And even if the estimated 10% of people in Baltimore are heroin addicts, that's still not an excuse for this failure rate. Parents get 60% of the reason. The other is the almost total dysfunction of the Baltimore City Public School System (BCPSS).
I don't live in Baltimore and I bet I'm more upset about this than most BCPSS parents!
And should I even mention the Black Democrat politicians who have stood in the way of giving parents who care other options?
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