H/T to Fred at RDW.
And in other news, the sun rose in the east this morning, the Pope was revealed to be Catholic and the bear was caught on camera taking a dump in the woods.
Seems North Shore Exponent got a piece of mail from Citizen Action flat-out lying about the so-called improvement in the graduation rate of Milwaukee Public Schools under the “leadership” of Peter Blewett.
Citizen Action’s flyer claims MPS graduation rates have increased 38 percent under Blewett’s, ahem, leadership. In 2001-2002, the MPS graduation rate was 60 percent. In 2006-2007, the graduation rate was 69 percent. That’s a 9 percent increase.
Even if you represent the figures as a percentage increase, that 9 percent increase is only a 15 percent increase over the original rate. To get to 38 percent (38 percent of 60), the rate would have had to increase 22.8 percent, or be at 82.8 percent. Not in anyone’s wildest dreams did MPS accomplish that.
