Stats on DPS

Here's a comment on the article about Goss – the statistics are mind-bogglingly bad:

 

According to Fortune, Detroit Public Schools has:

 

* 84,600 students enrolled in 2009, compared to 167,000 in 2000

* The 2008-2009 graduation rate for high school seniors was 60 percent

* The new high school graduation rate target for DPS is 90 percent

* Currently, 2 percent of Detroit public high school students are prepared for college-level math

* 11 percent of high school students are prepared for college-level reading

* 35 percent of Detroit's high school students are accepted to postsecondary institutions