Bush Foundation Sought to Head Off Bad News on Florida’s Graduation Rates
A curious post was printed in Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Excellence in Education blog on January 3rd which indicated the foundation was taking the position that federal measurement of graduation rates were “misleading.” Wrote the foundation’s Mike Thomas:
But the new measure comes in the form of numbers without context because there is no calculation of what states require for a diploma. A student who may easily meet the requirements to graduate in one state may not in another.
All diplomas are not created equal.
This makes the federal rankings misleading because they are not an apples-to-apples comparison