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It has been a while, but I’m going to say if you throw out the one or two good HS in a urban school system, the ones they keep just to keep the handful of white/jewish/asian kids still in the mind grinder. So toss those. Then what you have as in East St. Louis, Detroit, Oakland, Newark is half graduation rates. Of those that graduate, only half go on to finish one year of post HS education. So basically the racket produces 25 rates tested against anything outside the racket.
But it is even worse, as the 9th graders are usually a good 20 percent bigger class then when they become a HS Senior class. Where did those kids go? If you counted those dropped out kids in the rates, then the disorganization has something like a 15 percent, one year completion post HS rate. And all this at 15=20k/kid per year. Enough for a private school and three to four times a parochial school.
But if you were running a production plant you would or could, fold total costs into the few widgets that met customer standards, so another way of looking at urban, Democrat party, union teacher plant cost is that a post one year student cost somewhere around a 100,000/year times 12 years.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2006-06-20-dropout-rates_x.htm#grad
Lowest to highest graduation rates in the nation’s 50 largest school districts
Rate District Size rank Rate District Size rank Rate District Size rank
21.7 Detroit 11 53.7 New Orleans 48 68.4 Gwinnett County, Ga. 20
38.5 Baltimore City, Md. 30 53.8 Duval County, Fla. 19 68.6 Brevard County, Fla. 42
38.9 New York City 1 54.6 Clark County, Nev. 6 69.3 Fulton County, Ga. 45
43.1 Milwaukee 28 54.8 DeKalb County, Ga. 27 70.0 Hillsborough County, Fla. 10
43.8 Cleveland 44 55.1 Austin 37 70.2 Anne Arundel County, Md. 40
44.2 Los Angeles 2 55.2 Palm Beach County, Fla. 12 70.4 Cobb County, Ga. 26
45.3 Miami-Dade County, Fla. 4 55.5 Philadelphia 8 72.2 Granite, Utah 46
46.3 Dallas 13 56.0 Charlotte 23 75.3 Mesa, Ariz. 39
46.5 Pinellas County, Fla. 22 56.2 Orange County, Fla. 15 75.8 Northside, Tex. 49
46.8 Denver 43 60.1 Polk County, Fla. 34 77.0 Jefferson County, Colo. 33
48.5 Memphis 21 62.2 Jefferson County, Ky. 31 80.2 Jordan, Utah 41
48.7 Broward County, Fla. 5 63.0 San Diego 16 81.3 Cypress-Fairbanks, Tex. 47
48.9 Fort Worth 36 63.1 Fresno 35 81.5 Montgomery County, Md. 17
48.9 Houston 7 63.7 Hawaii (statewide) 9 81.9 Baltimore County, Md. 24
50.4 Nashville 50 66.5 Virginia Beach 38 82.2 Wake County, N.C. 25
52.0 Albuquerque 32 67.3 Prince George’s County, Md. 18 82.5 Fairfax County, Va. 14
52.2 Chicago 3 68.1 Long Beach 29