Future government bureaucrats, corporate Community Affairs officers, social service agents, etc.
I live in the 2nd largest school district in Illinois. While year after year graduation rates increase (much to the cheerleading of the teachers union, and of course they immediately follow that cheerleading with calls for pay raises), our ACT scores have fallen dramatically over the same period. So much so, that last year the district switched over to SAT. Now the baseline has been cleared, so we won’t have data to compare ACT scores over the last 2 decades district wide. I was told by a board member that the average ACT score for our district (it was required that all students take the ACT) was 11. 11! But of course they can brag about everyone graduating (oh, and every year more and more students receive a 3.5 GPA or greater in our district, and they brag about this too... amazing). Less than half the students in our state meet the national benchmarks for college, and less than 1/3 meet the benchmarks for math. But by golly they graduate! and with honors! https://magoosh.com/hs/act/2016/average-act-score-by-state/
In the photo in the article, it doesn’t appear that 98% of the graduates are African-Americans!
Scholastic Achievement was me getting to borrow crayons.
Still waiting for Betsy DeVos to end common core.
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I wonder if they not only graduated them all bUT also auto-applied them to community college in DC, which admits anyone and like many CC’s offers many remedial courses in basic math and English.
Knowing how things are with the Left, they’ll probably prosecute the people who looked at the school records for showing an obvious bias against minorities (blacks, in this case). Why else dive so deeply into those records unless you think that blacks are incapable of graduating in large numbers?