Posted on 06/07/2007 7:33:07 AM PDT by flutters
CLEVELAND (AP) -- Forty-three percent of Cleveland's public school seniors are flunking and won't get diplomas.
That means nearly 13-hundred of three-thousand seniors failed to pass one or more sections of the five-part state exam.
Students take the test in tenth grade and can retake it six times.
Statewide, the failure rate was seven percent, or nine-thousand students out of 130-thousand seniors across Ohio.
The Cleveland district was put under mayoral control after years of court supervision because of high student failure rates and mismanagement.
That’s obviously a trick question!
You owe me a new keyboard
‘Nope, that is good news, I am over a 1000 miles from Cleveland’
(chuckle)
I’m at the exact opposite of them here in Ohio.
Maybe, but I bet they would have caught the spelling error!!!...lol Hmmmm, maybe the proper spelling should have been on the verbal portion of the exam—heck, it would have raised the scores!!!
Obviously another large levy is called for.
Don't make me sick. Someone could nuke downtown Cleveland today, and tommorow's headline in the Plain Dealer would be:
CAVS HOME CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES MOVED TO RICHFIELD COLOSEUM
Lower Attendance Expected
I wonder if Kucinich is concerned?
Kucinich - just reading the name makes me cringe.
I lived there until the early 80s.
That noxious little twit bankrupted the city, and they still vote him in as a US Rep every two years.
Sadly my home town is only about 10 years behind Detroit on the road to total economic collapse.
“I can gurantee that if you went into the hood and brought up the subject of Al Gore and An Inconvenient Truth,the vast majority of kids wouldn’t have the slightest idea of what you were talking about.”
But they would still vote for him if they were told to by the usual race pimps JJ, Sharpton, et.al......
Unfortunately many in the the black community have no one to blame but themselves - they are given every opportunity in this country, free scholarships, grants and welfare but continue to choose a path of poverty and dependence on the govt nipple. Sad commentary on a portion of our society that would rather let others think for them.
I checked, the head of Cleveland schools has compensation of $360,000/year.
Obviously there’s no “pay for performance” in this gig....
LeBron did not go to Cleveland schools. He went to a private Catholic school.
$360,000/year? Great gig if you can get it!
“13-hundred of three-thousand”
Michael row the boat ashore...
Michael help to trim the sail...
Whaddya wanna do, Michael? Row across or sail across?
— early Smothers Brothers
Correct
LeBron is an Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary dude
He even played tight end in football the first 2 yrs, IIRC
Alzheimer's?
Flunking Seniors!
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