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Article: Graduation Rate Rises Again To New High
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- The Culvert Chronicles
- Article date:
- August 21, 2008
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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein recently announced that New York City's four-year high school graduation rate continues to push upward, as it has every year under the Administration. The City's four-year rate reached a new high of 55.8 percent in 2007, according to data released by the New York State Education Department, with more students earning Regents diplomas and Black and Hispanic students narrowing the graduation gap with their white and Asian peers. The State's rates now include students who met graduation requirements in summer school following their senior year. Excluding these students to allow for comparisons with previous years, the City's ...