Akron’s graduation rate will soar to 93 percent this year. It’s not progress, writes Fordham’s Chad Aldis. The district lowered the bar dramatically to make its numbers look good. At the start of the school year, only 54 percent of the class of 2018 was on track to graduate, school officials told Theresa Cottom at the Beacon Journal. That was down from a 74 percent graduation rate the year before. “Rather than helping students acquire a diploma through shoring up academic wea