Indiana

Graduation Day

By Abdul Hakim-Shabazz

In case you missed it last month, the graduation rate and academic performance results are in for Indiana schools.   Here they are for IPS. The first number is the rate.  The number in parenthesis is the percentage change from last year…

• Arlington H.S. - 48%  (-1.9 %)
• Arsenal - 44% (+3.0%)
• Broad Ripple - 60% (+0.7%)
• Manuel - 39.3% (-5.7 %)
• Northwest - 45.5 % (+5.2%)
• Key Learning - 82.8 % (-5.2 %)
• Thomas Carr Howe - 52.5 % (-3.1 %)
• George Washington - 49.3 % (+5.8 %)

I’m no Horace Mann but I do know that before I tried to shut down a charter school, I’d try to get my own act together first; like making sure more than 52% of the students who come to my school district actually graduate.

Full post as published by Indiana Barrister on February 12, 2009 (boomark / email).