Graduation rates at public high schools in Massachusetts increased for a sixth consecutive year, a sign that educational overhaul is yielding results, state officials announced Wednesday.
Some 84.7 percent of students who entered high schools in fall 2008 graduated last year, an increase of 4.8 percentage points from six years earlier, according to the newly released data.
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We've been making slow and steady progress, then why the big push by the Mayor and others to privatize our public schools? There is still alot of work that needs to be done to close the achievement gap between urban and suburban schools. But despite six years of improvements, some forces want to use the achievement gap as a club to cut costs.
A rise in graduation rates and Mass is still number one across the country in most academic measures? Must be because of teachers and their unions because it ain't the pay - salaries have been flat for years! Zero to half a percent here...half a percent there...and they still are not given their social security that they earned at other jobs! And now they are easier to fire, the government is going to fingerprint them and make them pay to do it; master's degrees that they must pay for; certification every five years that they must pay for...ENOUGH!