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Article: A big disparity in graduation rates; While Minnesota's overall high school graduation rate is in the nation's Top 10, it is near the bottom for minority group members.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- June 13, 2007
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Byline: James Walsh; Staff Writer
Overall, Minnesota fares well in a report on graduation rates by Education Week magazine. But, as it seems with so many reports detailing education statistics, there is good news - and bad news.
Using its own formula to compute graduation rates, Education Week lists Minnesota's overall 2003-04 graduation rate of 78.7 percent as 10th best in the United States.
But the numbers slip when looking at specific student groups. Black students in Minnesota have a 2003-04 graduation rate of only 42.7 percent, fourth lowest in the United States among black students. And the graduation rate for Asian students is 64.6 percent, sixth-lowest.
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