The High School Graduation rate for the city of Indianapolis increased 5.3 per cent over a decade. Now 30.5 per cent of their students get to wear the cap and gown. That stunningly low figure is part of a study of the fifty largest cities in the country [None in Alabama] and their gains or losses between 1995 and 2005 when it comes to keeping the kids in school long enough for them to graduate. The best rate was in Mesa, Arizona: up 12% to 76.60. Although no Alabama cities are in the report, the graduation rate here has been dismal, ranking in the 40's in state-by-state comparisons. Last year that fact was cited in a study as a major drag on economic development in the state.
WHAT!?
ReplyDeleteYou mean to tell me that Bummin'ham ain't the Big City?
Gawd ferbid!
Edjumakshun hain't ne'er bin a beeg thang uv impertinence in Aluhbammy.
Er els we'd inack lawz to keep kidz incarsurated til thay gadjeate.
Puhleez, mistur Guvnuh Rielee, an ar lejisslaters, kin we'se ha' sum mo'?