Improving graduation rates and improving high schools would mean a change in inner city leadership. Getting rid of stupid corrupt Democrats is impossible as they have the high school drop outs voting for them. It serves a purpose to have bad schools. It keeps the low achievers voting for Democrats. Keep in mind that Obama brought in Mr Duncan from Chicago for a leadership in education. How did Mr Duncan leave Chicago schools? Obama, Burris, Jarrett and Axelrode all have a hand in Chicago schools and they took the same thought process to Washington. They care about themselves and not anyone else.
Ain't going to do that. Paymasters in the Democrat Party will not let them. What do Black leaders expect to happen when they spend all their time for decades telling black youths "the white man has designed a system to screw you over, you got no chance at all. You got to vote Democrats so they can protect you from "the man".
The problems in the black community were created by, and maintained by, the current leadership for political reasons.
Black "leaders" know they got to keep the average black on the political plantation voting for the neo Slavecrats in the Democrat party if I want their slice of the taxpayer paid for pork pie. The "civil rights" leadership are "house niggers" who sell their souls to the corrupt neo slavecrats in the Democrat party leadership for a slice of the taxpayer slush funds.