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On Monday, the Office of the State Superintendent of Education published a damning report showing that one - third of D.C. public school graduates last year improperly received diplomas, exposing a «culture of passing» that prized glowing statistics over adhering to school system policies.

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Last year, for example, he blasted a decision by the City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health to invite controversial American leader Linda Sarsour to be a graduation speaker, charging her with anti-Semitism.

Staten Island Assemblywoman and GOP mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis told the Observer last night that she returned campaign contributions from Palestinian - American activist Linda Sarsour — and condemned the City University of New York's Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy for inviting the Women's March organizer to speak at its commencement next month.

Ransome points to well - known public, diverse, all - girls success stories such as Baltimore's Western High School, founded in 1844, which boasted a 100 percent college placement last year, and the Philadelphia High School for Girls, established nearly 200 years ago, which counts among its graduates a federal judge, an opera singer, the first female bishop in the Episcopal Church, and the first female head of the Black Panthers.

According to U.S. News, only 15 public high schools in America can boast that 100 % of their graduated students passed a minimum of one AP exam last year.

The organization, which recruits recent college graduates to teach for two years in inner - city and rural public schools with shortages of credentialed teachers, has raised only $ 3.8 million of its $ 7 million budget for this year, TFA officials said last month.

NEW YORK — Roman Catholic schools should launch an aggressive campaign to educate the «worst» students in every community and seek public and private funding once those students graduate, Secretary of Education William J. Bennett proposed here last week.

Analyses from the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center estimate that over 120,000 public high school students in the state of Texas failed to graduate with a regular diploma last school year.

Since graduating from DePaul University with a Master of Arts in Mathematics Education, he has spent the past 11 years teaching high school mathematics in the public school districts of Chicago, West Allis and Milwaukee, with the last 7 of which teaching courses as part of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program at Reagan College Preparatory High School on Milwaukee's southschool mathematics in the public school districts of Chicago, West Allis and Milwaukee, with the last 7 of which teaching courses as part of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program at Reagan College Preparatory High School on Milwaukee's southschool districts of Chicago, West Allis and Milwaukee, with the last 7 of which teaching courses as part of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program at Reagan College Preparatory High School on Milwaukee's southSchool on Milwaukee's south side.

Forty - eight students are Midlands Middle College's first graduates since the school achieved designation as a South Carolina Public Charter School lastschool achieved designation as a South Carolina Public Charter School lastSchool last year.

A city study — undertaken after media reports revealed the situation — found that more than 900 of 2,758 students who graduated from a D.C. public school last year either failed to attend enough classes or improperly took makeup classes.

Last month, CCSA released another major report on Los Angeles public high schools which shows that charter schools surpass traditional district schools in graduating college - ready students of all backgrounds, among other findings.

While the Los Angeles Unified School District continues to drive toward higher and higher graduation rates, district data provided to The 74 and LA School Report show that more than half of last year's graduating seniors received grades that made them ineligible for admission into California's public universities.

In addition to these four state - based studies of voucher program impacts on test scores, some recent studies do show positive effects on graduation rates, parent satisfaction, community college enrollment, and other nonachievement - based outcomes, but it is unclear if these outcomes are lasting and valid.23 For example, research shows that nationally, graduation rates for students in public schools and peers participating in voucher programs equalize after adjusting for extended graduation rates.24 Some critics suggest that private schools may graduate students who have not successfully completed the full program.25 Also, in regard to parent satisfaction, while some studies do show greater satisfaction among parents whose children participate in voucher programs, the most recent evaluation of the D.C. voucher program shows that any increase in parent or student school satisfaction is not statistically significant.26

Data from Serving Our Children, a nonprofit that administers the voucher program, show that 98 percent of voucher recipients graduated from high school on time last year, a far higher rate than the 70 percent of students who graduated in four years from D.C. Public Schools.

Last year alone, the district saw 98 % of its scholarship recipients receive their high school diploma (and there's even more great news), while only 69 % of seniors in public high schools graduated.