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Despite low grad rate in Trenton public schools, city charter to see all seniors graduate
The Times of Trenton | May 12, 2014The city’s public schools saw a graduation rate as low as 48 percent last year, but at one charter school this year, officials expect not only to graduate every 12th-grade student, but also to see all 17 go on to four-year colleges.“There’s no secret to what we do,” said Graig Weiss, intermediate school principal for Foundation Academies. “It’s really, really hard work.
“We will not make any excuses for why our students do not and will not achieve, because we believe in setting high expectations for our kids, both behaviorally and academically. And when you set high expectations for kids, they absolutely rise to the challenge, and our students are proof of that, year after year,” he said.
The charter school was founded in 2007 with just a middle school handling about 100 children in fifth and sixth grades, Weiss said. More grade levels have been added every year.
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