When there's a whopping 32% graduation rate at the high school.
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Just 31.9 percent of Detroit students graduate in four years, according to the first major study in Michigan conducted using a method now mandated by the federal government.
The study, by the Education Policy Center at Michigan State University, looked at how many ninth-graders in Detroit and the state as a whole left high school with diplomas after four years. It portends what may happen in August, when Michigan releases the graduation rate for the class of 2007, which will be calculated for the first time using the same formula used by MSU researchers.
Detroit Public Schools officials would not comment on the study, which has not yet been published, but School Board President Carla Scott said she doesn't believe the results, which echo the findings of an Education Week study released in June. That study found fewer than a quarter of ninth-graders who entered Detroit Public Schools in 1999 graduated four years later.
You may know the city of Detroit as a "progressive" city; Kerry 72% - Bush 28%. So who do the progressives blame for the rot they call a school system? After all, you can't find a republican in that city with a search warrant.
Is there a "progressive" out there who can tell me of a city or school system run by republicans this dysfunctional?
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