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Flushing Times

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Fresh Meadows

The Civic Scene: Charter schools take away help from public schools

Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently bragged that the high school graduation rate has jumped to 61 percent in 2010, but then contended that 75 percent of these graduates were unfit to function in college. They needed to take non-college credit remedial courses in college. Comment.

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