Nearly one in four public school students never graduate. That's a failure rate of 25 percent for a job that shouldn't be all that difficult.
And if you figure that less than one-fourth of Michigan students earn college degrees -- fast becoming the basic threshold for success in our economy -- you could legitimately say the failure rate is above 75 percent.
In urban districts, the performance is even more dismal. Only 22 percent of students who start ninth grade in the Detroit Public Schools graduate from the district. They either drop out, move away or choose other alternatives.
Detroit schools send more kids to prison and the welfare rolls than they do to college. And for that, taxpayers give the district $1.5 billion a year.
DeVos couldn't do a better job of destroying the schools if he wanted to. But he doesn't.
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Ya wanna do a little research? I say that american soldiers ( or americans in general ) are statistically safer on the streets of Iraq than in the city of detroit.........or washington dc.........or l.a..........anybody wanna bet me?
1950 ......... 1,849,568
1960 ......... 1,670,144
1970 ......... 1,511,482
1980 ......... 1,203,339
1990 ......... 1,027,974
2000 ............ 951,270
2004 ............ 900,198
Time for Robocop - somebody help me with the art.
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