Saturday, July 26, 2008

Only 37% of Black Males in Chicago Public Schools Graduate High School

Channel 7 writes:

"Fifty years after Brown (v. Board of Education), less than 50 percent of African-American males are graduating high school," said John Jackson, President Schott Foundation.

Young black men are having a harder time graduating high school than their white counterparts, according to a national study released Friday by the Schott Foundation.

In the 2005-2006 school year, the Chicago school district graduated only 37 percent of the total number of black males enrolled versus 62 percent of white males.

While the numbers are similar to other large urban centers, they are quite unfavorable when compared to Prince George's County in Maryland, for example, which includes the Washington, D.C. area. There, for that same year, nearly the same number of black and white male students graduated.

Read the whole thing. I also wrote more about this on my own blog.

Via Newsalert!

1 comment:

  1. I'm a Black male - and this statistic, although startling, is so familiar. I see this statistic being validated day after day. It's bad...boy is it bad.

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