New Report “Yes We Can” Shows America’s Public Schools Fail Over Half the Nation’s Black Male Students | The Schott Foundation for Public Education

New Report “Yes We Can” Shows America’s Public Schools Fail Over Half the Nation’s Black Male Students | The Schott Foundation for Public Education: New York, August 17, 2010 – “Yes We Can: The 2010 Schott 50 State Report on Black Males in Public Education” reveals that the overall 2007/8 graduation rate for Black males in the U.S. was only 47 percent. Half of the states have graduation rates for Black male students below the national average. The report highlights concerns that New York's graduation rate for its Regents diploma is only 25 percent for Black male students. New York City, the district with the nation's highest enrollment of Black students, only graduates 28 percent of its Black male students with Regents diplomas on time. Overall, each year over 100,000 Black male students in New York City alone do not graduate from high school with their entering cohort. These statistics—and the other alarming data—point to a national education and economic crisis.