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Article: GRADUATION RATE: 81 PERCENT OF CLASS OF 2007 GRADUATED IN FOUR YEARS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- January 22, 2008
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The Massachusetts Department of Education issued the following news release:
Nearly 81 percent of students in the class of 2007 graduated four years after starting high school as freshmen, according to statewide graduation rate data released to the Board of Education on Tuesday.
This is the second year that high schools have been required to make or surpass a target graduation rate of 55 percent to make AYP. The Board voted 6-3 on Tuesday to increase that rate for the 2008 AYP determinations.
Under the new policy, high schools will be required to meet or surpass a four-year graduation rate of 60 percent, a five-year graduation rate of 65 percent or show a 2 percentage point increase in ...