Indiana One Of The Worst States In Black Male HS Graduates
Audio Included in Post. Runs 18 Minutes. ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. In an exclusive Afternoons with Amos interview, a national foundation reported that Indiana is one of the ten worst states in graduating Black males from high school. A report titled Yes We Can by the Schott Foundation for Public Education reported that just 42% of Indiana’s Black males graduated from high school in 2008, the eighth lowest percentage of the fifty states and Washington DC. The worst states were New York, Florida, South Carolina and Louisiana. The Indianapolis Public Schools also fared poorly on the national study. And not just for low Black male graduation rates. The graduation rates for white males in IPS is even worse than that for Black males. Listen above to Amos’ exclusive interview with Michael Holtzman, of the Schott Foundation. Click below to read or download the report yourself and check out an interactive website with data on Black male high school graduation rates from states and school districts nationwide.
