
After the DC scandal, 42% on track to graduate
Washington D.C.’s Ballou High, which bragged about getting every graduate into college, handed out diplomas to students with months of absences, a WAMU/NPR story revealed. Ballou High graduated students with 90 days of absences or more. That triggered an audit, which found that one-third of graduates districtwide weren’t eligible for their diplomas. Now that students have to show up and pass classes, the graduation rate is expected to fall sharply, reports Perry Stein in the