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INTRODUCTORY*
CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)
Introduced by: President Dixon
A RESOLUTION ENTITLED
A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
Title
Informational Hearing - Graduation Rates - Baltimore City Public Schools
FOR the purpose of inviting representatives of the Education Research Center to share with the City Council and the Acting CEO of the Baltimore City Public Schools the results of Diplomas Count: An Essential Guide to Graduation Policy and Rates, a research study of graduation in the nation's high schools and asking officials of the Baltimore City Public School System to respond to the information on graduation rates contained in the Education Research Center report.
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With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center is engaged in a 4-year project to study high school graduation and related issues pertaining to late secondary schooling and the transition to postsecondary education and employment. The 1st annual report from this project, Diplomas Count: An Essential Guide to Graduation Policy and Rates, provides detailed data on high school graduation rates at the national, state, and district levels.
This report shows that Baltimore City's high schools had the 2nd worst graduation rate among the nation's 50 largest school systems, with only 38.5% of high school students graduating 4 years after they began high school - only Detroit, where the graduation rate was 21.7% had a lower rate. In a comparison of Maryland's 5 largest school s...
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