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All-Time High: State Graduation Rate Increases Again All-Time High: State Graduation Rate Increases Again
All-Time High: State Graduation Rate Increases Again The statewide high school graduation rate has broken another record, increasing for a seventh straight year to 87.9 percent for the Class of 2017.  The positive news was announced at a Monday news conference by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and Commissioner of Education Dianna R. Wentzell at Wilbur Cross High School in Bridgeport. Wilbur Cross enjoyed the third largest increase in its public school graduation rate over the past five years of any Connecticut high school, reaching 81.3 percent last spring, up from 64.3 percent in 2013, officials said.  Graduation rates for black and Latino students …

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by Jon Craig