This one sentence is the money shot of the whole article. This tells you the study is a fraud, because if Asian students had been included, there would have been no disparity between "white" students and "minority" students.
Right. Leave it out if if doesn't suit the agenda.
Asians are not minorities in this type of study. A lot depends on what liberal myth you are trying to sell. Of course when asians are promoted to management then they do count as minorities.
At any rate, graduation rates show only how much graduation matters. In todays high schools, it takes a great deal of EFFORT in order to not graduate. You have to cuss out liberal teachers who are only too happy to give you a grade, then you have to totally ignor classes where questions simlar to graduation exam test questions are reviewed. And you have to forget that you can remember 200 plays in a play book but can't remember 20 facts to pass a test. You also need to simply hang out somewhere else for a lot of time. Graduation standards are so low that a motivated fifth grader could pass them, I think minorities need to take a little responsibility for this one.
Now if you want to criticise the schools for not preparing more kids for college I could agree with this.
Bingo. This whole article is probably timed to go along with the judge ordering more money for NYS schools.