Though located in a region with two of the nation’s best-performing school systems, the District of Columbia ranks fourth-worst in the country when it comes to preparing its public school students for college, according to a report released Tuesday.
As Mayor Adrian Fenty takes control over the troubled, 55,000-student system, data from the nonprofit Editorial Projects in Education Research Center shows only 58.2 percent of the District’s 2007 class of public school students will leave high school with a diploma. And they’ll enter the nation’s most highly trained and specialized work force in which more than 15 percent of employees have college degrees and earn a median income of more than $59,000 annually, the report said.
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