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Bad News for Charter Schools | Mother Jones

Bad News for Charter Schools | Mother Jones

Bad News for Charter Schools

| Mon Feb. 7, 2011 9:26 PM PST

The New York Times reports today that not everyone who graduates from high school in New York is ready for college. That's no surprise. But the news for charter schools was pretty grim:

Statewide, 77 percent of students graduate from high school....A state committee determined last year that a 75 on the English Regents and a 80 on the math Regents roughly predicted that students would get at least a C in a college-level course in the same subject. Scores below that meant students had to often take remediation classes before they could do college-level work. Only 41 percent of New York State graduates in