Leadership from MA?
Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) stated today on the Today Show that 53% of American children do not graduate high school.
COURIC: He wanted to train 70,000 additional teachers in math and science.
KERRY: That’s terrific. But 53 percent of our children don’t graduate from high school. Kids don’t have after-school programs… He didn’t ask America to sacrifice anything to achieve great goals and the biggest example is making the tax cut permanent for the wealthiest people in America. The average American struggles to find time to take care of families, working two or three jobs… It’s a disgrace. He did not tell the real state of the union.
(Hat tip to Matt Drudge)
The U.S. Census Bureau has this press release on their web site. It is dated 29 June 2004.
High School Graduation Rates Reach All-Time High; Non-Hispanic White and Black Graduates at Record Levels
Last year, 85 percent of adults age 25 and over had completed at least high school, an all-time high, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today. Also in 2003, 27 percent of adults age 25 and over had a college degree, another record . . .
Here are more U.S. Census data.
So, will the former (and current?) presidential hopeful be questioned about this? Kerry’s week has been interesting. He first called for a filibuster of the vote to confirm Judge Alito to SCOTUS and now he tosses out a very loose “fact”. Think about it: according to the man who would be the president, more than half of all students do not graduate high school.
Michelle Malkin has video of this.
Also blogged on this date . . .
- A Little Slice of Bevan - 2008
- The Preachers Stone - 2008
- Sand Castles - 2008
- Nice Guys Finish Last - 2008
- Apotemnophilia - 2007
- Corzine Fails to Provide New School Funding Plan - 2007
- Site of Joseph Buck - 2006
- Much Ado About Nothing - 2006
- clife - 2003
- You Gotta See This! "Two" - 2003
- The Pebble Palace - 2003
- Nice Caboose! - 2003
- Firefighter's Memorial - 2003
- GTCP Key Chain Cache - 2003
- You gota see this Three. - 2003
- Over the mound, and through the woods - 2003
- Walkers Forge - 2003
- Maze - 2003
- Artsy Fartsy - 2003
- Secluded Pond - 2003
- Holly Swamp - 2003