WI has worst Af-Am grad rate (2002)

Here's the full study, with links to lots of different ways of viewing the data:

The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research

But here's the grisly truth: Wisconsin is the very, very, very worst. There are a few states with insufficient data, but the ones you'd hope could bail us out--Mississippi, Arkansas--are in the table, and doing much better than Wisconsin.

Wake up people. What does frickin' Mississippi know that the self-important, swaggering white liberals of Madison do not?

Sometimes I get excited about all the work to be done here... other times I just can't wait to leave. I'd almost rather be in Mississippi... conditions suck but there is a movement there, struggling though it may be. But that's another post.

State	Ranking	Graduation Rate
Wisconsin	39	40%
Minnesota	38	43
Georgia	37	44
Tennessee	36	44
Nevada	35	49
Ohio	34	49
Oregon	33	49
New York	32	51
Florida	31	51
Alabama	30	52
Hawaii	29	53
Michigan	28	53
Nebraska	27	53
Kansas	26	54
Arizona	25	54
Dist Columbia	24	55
Indiana	23	55
Colorado	22	55
N. Carolina	21	55
Illinois	20	57
Iowa	19	57
Mississippi	18	58
New Mexico	17	58
Alaska	16	58
Missouri	15	58
California	14	59
Texas	13	59
Rhode Island	12	61
Louisiana	11	62
Pennsylvania	10	63
Oklahoma	9	64
Connecticut	8	64
Virginia	7	64
Delaware	6	64
Maryland	5	66
New Jersey	4	66
Arkansas	3	67
Massachusetts	2	70
West Virginia	1	71

Insufficient data: Kentucky, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wyoming.