claim: "we have a 40 to 50 percent dropout rate in our inner-city schools."
author: dan patrick
evidence_1: jan 3, 2005 ... how many central city high schools have a severe dropout ... high schools that  were more than 50 percent minority graduated less than half of their ... half of the  majority-minority schools had dropout rates over 40 .... schools that succeed we  need not worry about segregation are engaged in a fallacy of.
evidence_2: feb 11, 2015 ... only about 60 percent of them will earn high school diplomas, and roughly four ...  that's compared with a 65-percent graduation rate for latino males and 80 ...  report on the state of african american males in public education. ... rate for black  males effectively condemns 40 percent of their peers to poverty.
evidence_3: sep 22, 2016 ... and while citywide graduation and college readiness rates have been rising in ...  request so we can identify the records that are responsive to your request. ....  lowest quintile experienced an 11 drop, from 61 percent to 50 percent. .... and  hispanic females were about 40 percent the rate of their white peers, ...
evidence_4: get answers on early childhood education, elementary and secondary ... the 6- year graduation rate was 59 percent at public institutions, 66 percent at private ...
evidence_5: jan 13, 2001 ... how many central city high schools have a severe ... 10%, the single year  dropout rate for urban districts is nearly twice ... our central measure of a low ...  students rather than holding them, we argue that it is semantically clearer and  more ..... which had a 50 to 59% ratio moved into the 40 to 49% range.