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Are D.C. Public Schools a Lost Cause?
It's high school graduation season here in the nation's capital which means two things: ridiculous crowds outside Constitution Hall all day, every day; and the publication of Education Week's graduation issue. It's the latter that is causing greater concern because contained in the June 11 edition are the results of the magazine's ten-year analysis of public high school graduation rates across the country. And unfortunately, D.C. Public Schools ranked 50th out of 51 states and territories. According to the poll, 48.8 percent of public school students in the city graduated in 2006. So what do we do now?
