Schott Foundation to Step Up Advocacy for Black Males
Citing data, it urges districts to set graduation-rate goals.
The Schott Foundation for Public Education , which tracks the educational progress of black males, plans to step up its efforts to see that graduation-rate gaps are closed.
John H. Jackson, the head of the Cambridge, Mass.-based foundation, said last month that the organization was issuing a challenge to school districts to promote a 50 percent increase in the graduation rate of black males in the next five years.
“If there isn’t a timetable, the plans can go in perpetuity,” said Mr. Jackson, who became the president and chief executive officer of the...
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