Graduation rates unchanged from 2008 to 2010 in Syracuse schools despite Say Yes to Education program

In New York, the 21,000-student Syracuse school district joined in 2008 with Syracuse University and Say Yes to Education, a nonprofit foundation, to offer free college tuition to students who attend 10th, 11th and 12th grades in one of the city’s five public high schools. The students must be admitted to one of a group of more than 80 private and public colleges. Syracuse school officials said that more than 1,000 students had received free tuition through the program, and that the district’s enrollment had increased by 300 students since 2008 as more families moved into the city. But the graduation rate has remained unchanged.

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