HS Graduation Rates Go Up Even as Students and Teachers Fail to Show Up | RealClearInvestigations

HS Graduation Rates Go Up Even as Students and Teachers Fail to Show Up | RealClearInvestigations
"Phelps Architecture, Construction and Engineering High School in Washington, D.C., seemed to be doing great: A public school that enrolls only economically disadvantaged students, its graduation rate hit a recent high of 94.5 percent during the 2016-17 school year.
Yet in that same year, three-quarters of the students at Phelps were absent more than 10 percent of the time.
Phelps: Three-quarters chronically absent with a graduation rate of 94.5 percent...
...at least one-fifth of traditional public-school teachers missed more than 10 days in 32 of the 35 states studied.
According to federal data, in 2015, more than 41 percent of Rhode Island’s teachers were absent more than 10 days of the year.
..."It’s really easy to graduate more kids,” said David Griffith, a policy associate at the Fordham Institute.
“You just graduate them.” "
It gets worse.
Read on.