claim: "when i became mayor of los angeles, we had a 44 percent (high school) graduation rate. i said that was unacceptable. i challenged that notion. i said the mayor needs to be involved with our schools. we need to partner together. as i left, after a number of reforms, we grew our graduation rate from 44 percent to 72."
author: antonio villaraigosa
evidence_1: "i don't believe mr. mueller would be involved in a witch hunt," he said. ... house  democrats turned down an invitation to have lunch with trump at the white ... if  the shutdown lasts through january, it could subtract a half a percentage point  from .... federal crop payments have stopped flowing to farmers, who say they  cannot ...
evidence_2: "when i became mayor of los angeles, we had a 44 percent (high school)  graduation rate. i said that was unacceptable. i challenged that notion. i said the  mayor needs to be involved with our schools. we need to partner together. as i  left, after a number of reforms, we grew our graduation rate from 44 percent to 72. ".
evidence_3: oct 27, 2014 ... in fact, the minimum age for kindergarten has been a subject of ... stipek, an  expert on early learning and dean of stanford's graduate school of education. ....  my husband makes $100,000+ a year but we have four kids so … ... when you  have a child that starts to school say when they are after a deadline.
evidence_4: we have the nation's highest homelessness rate and the nation's highest ... " when i became mayor of los angeles, we had a 44 percent (high school) ... i  said the mayor needs to be involved with our schools. we need to partner  together. as i left, after a number of reforms, we grew our graduation rate from 44  percent to 72.
evidence_5: dec 7, 2017 ... new york city has a college success problem. graduation rates are alarmingly  low at community colleges and senior colleges, restricting economic opportunity.  ... yet only 44 percent of students who graduated from high school on time ....  experts we interviewed say that it presents a particular challenge for ...