City of Baltimore - File #: 06-0181R

• File #: 06-0181R
• Version: 0
• Name: Informational Hearing - Graduation Rates - Baltimore City Public Schools
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 5/15/2006
• In control: IMMEDIATE ADOPTION
• Final action: 5/15/2006
• Title: Informational Hearing - Graduation Rates - Baltimore City Public Schools FOR the purpose of requesting the CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools to address the City Council on graduation rates in public schools; to present an analysis of graduation rates by gender and national origin; and to discuss the applicability of the Manhattan Institute report "Leaving Boys Behind: Public High School Graduation Rates" to Baltimore City Public School System; and to discuss any existing programs to target specific populations to prevent drop-outs and to ensure graduation.
• Sponsors: Kenneth Harris, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, James B. Kraft, Robert Curran, President Young, Helen L. Holton, Belinda Conaway, Edward Reisinger, Keiffer Mitchell, Mary Pat Clarke, President Dixon, Stephanie Rawlings Blake, Agnes Welch
• Indexes: Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
5/15/2006	0	City Council	Adopted
5/15/2006	0	City Council	Introduced

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INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmember Harris


A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
Title
Informational Hearing - Graduation Rates - Baltimore City Public Schools

FOR the purpose of requesting the CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools to address the City Council on graduation rates in public schools; to present an analysis of graduation rates by gender and national origin; and to discuss the applicability of the Manhattan Institute report "Leaving Boys Behind: Public High School Graduation Rates" to Baltimore City Public School System; and to discuss any existing programs to target specific populations to prevent drop-outs and to ensure graduation.
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"Leaving Boys Behind: Public High School Graduation Rates" a report recently released by the Manhattan Institute finds that nationwide, about 72% of girls in the high school class of 2003 - but only 65% of boys earned diplomas and that the gender gap that is far more pronounced among minorities. While 59% of African American girls graduated, only 48% of African American boys graduated, and among Hispanics 58% girls graduated compared to only 49% of boys.

Suspecting that official school graduation rates were misleading, the authors of the report compiled graduation data from all 50 states and the District of Columbia and tracked the school populations of the 100 largest school districts in the country form the 9th grade through the 12th grade. Baltimor...