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Posted by kallahar on Jul.22.02 at 10:49 am PDT.
kallahar writes The magazine LA Weekly is reporting that an LA school has been claiming that it had virtually no dropouts -- even while its graduating class has less than half the number of students who started as ninth-graders three years ago. Apparently this is legal in California, and schools have been "citing low dropout rates as a success story, a sure sign, they say, that schools have gotten better -- which is a helpful offset when low test scores tell a gloomier tale." "While Manual Arts trumpeted its near-zero dropout rate, hundreds of students skipped classes, walked off campus or just didn't show up."
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