Duluth’s Alternative Press keeps digging into ISD 709. This comes from this month’s Zenith:
“In Duluth, 87 percent of white students graduated in 2015 compared to 66 percent of Latino students, 62 percent of African–American students, and 52 percent of American Indian students—placing Duluth dead last in the state that’s already dead last in the nation. (There are some year–to–year variations in the data, with one ethnic group or another jumping a point or two above last place, but the overall trend is unmistakable.)”
One can’t help but wonder if we’d be dead last in the nation had we decided not to gamble $70 million general fund dollars on the Long Range Facilities Plan.
