Boston's High School Graduation Rate Lags

The Boston Globe reports:

Nearly half of Boston students fail to graduate from the city's regular public high schools in four years, according to a new Boston school system report that examines the city's growing dropout problem.

The 53 percent four-year graduation rate pales in comparison to the state average and even lags behind the average rate of the state's urban school systems. The report, which the school system released to the Globe yesterday, also gives an unprecedented glimpse into which students are most likely to drop out.

Don't the "progressive",Democrats who run Boston care about the children?