In other words, it
would take more than 50 years for this gap to close.
The story for
Hispanic males is not much better: the national on-time graduation rate for Hispanic males is 58 percent.
Match these dismal
statistics with the graduation rates and college enrollment rates of private
school choice programs:
- The D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program has a graduation rate of 91 percent—more than 21 percentage points higher than those who were interested in the program, but did not receive a scholarship and more than 30 percentage points higher than the graduation rates of D.C. Public Schools. Taking into account that 87 percent of this year’s participating students identify themselves as black and 11 percent identify has Hispanic or Latino, the graduation rates for students currently in the program will go far beyond the dismal national rates.
- In Milwaukee, a “gold standard” evaluation found that the on-time graduation rate for students in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program was 7.2 percentage points higher than the graduation rate of students in Milwaukee Public Schools.
- In a private school choice program in New York, African American participants were 24 percent more likely to enroll in college as a result of receiving a voucher. In addition, African American enrollment rates in selective colleges more than doubled among voucher students, and the rate of enrollment in full-time colleges increased by 31 percent.
This New York research is particularly poignant since the Schott Foundation’s report showed that New
York has the worst
graduation rate for black males—at only 37 percent.
The reality is that the graduation rates of minority children are
far behind those of white students. The
answer is not
to set low standards, but to offer educational options for students to
access great schools today.
- American Federation for Children | Alliance for School Choice, MSG
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