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November 14, 2001
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Report shows gap in graduation rates

State's high school rates are near the top overall, but last for black students

By SAM SCHULHOFER-WOHL

of the Journal Sentinel staff

Wednesday, November 14, 2001

Among the best overall. Dead last among African-Americans.

That's the gap -- stunning to some, a grim old refrain to others - - between Wisconsin's rankings in a new report on the states' high school graduation rates.

Saying the public should wake up and start caring, Milwaukee Public Schools Superintendent Spence Korte called the findings a "community travesty" but unsurprising.

Yet if the bare facts were obvious to local education leaders, the explanation is not. Most said the causes were so ...

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