Florida Sets New Record With 89.7% H.S. Graduation Rate

Saturday, January 11, 2025

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced today that the state's high school graduation rate has reached an all-time high of 89.7% for the 2023-2024 school year, marking an increase of 1.7 percentage points over the previous year and exceeding pre-pandemic levels. The 2023-2024 rate surpasses the 86.9% recorded during the 2018-2019 school year, establishing a new benchmark in Florida's educational achievements. This year's results do not include the pandemic-era exemptions from statewide assessment requirements, solidifying the milestone as a true indicator of academic progress. "Florida leads the nation in education because we prioritize learning over indoctrination, empower parents, and provide universal school choice," said Governor Ron DeSantis. "This record graduation rate is yet another testament to our commitment to delivering top-quality education and maintaining our #1-in-the-nation status."

Posted by gracieamazed at 10:03 AM | 27 COMMENTS | permalink

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If you continually lower standards, this is what you get.

#1 | Posted by morris at 2025-01-11 10:11 AM

CA is number one! For highest high school dropout rates. Weird.

DeSantis forged the numbers.

I mean, he forged the COVID numbers when people were actually dying. Lying about graduation rates is easier.

#2 | Posted by gracieamazed

I've noted that when people tell you the right kinds of lies you purr like a kitten.

It was amusing to see pictures of democrats with their family and friends that fled to Florida to vacation during COVID because we were open. Never forget the masses that died at our super spreader events like spring break, bike week, drag shows, open beaches, etc. Tragic, just tragic. That was the icing on the cake for the Florida DR left wingnuts, they packed up and moved out of this GD red state. Oh wait, never mind, they are all still here boycotting Publix and black beans by Goya. Carry on and tooDles.

It was amusing to see pictures of democrats with their family and friends that fled to Florida to vacation during COVID because we were open.

#6 | Posted by gracieamazed

How many got sick; how many died?

What good do you get for crowing about stupid behavior?

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Florida breaks record for Florida.
Not a ranking of Florida against other states.

Kudos to Florida bringing the state graduation up from the 2003-2004 rate of 59.2%. Every year we've seen improvement (discounting COVID years where requirements were reduced and the graduation rates were higher than today's numbers). Now we're competitive with other states in the grad rate numbers.

Amazing what happens when the government actually funds education, isn't it?

One of the previously worse counties that showed the highest improvement credits active government involvement; teacher's pay, intervention programs, targeting individual needs, appointing more staff, graduation facilitators, more time and intensive instructional support, etc. In other words, they finally are spending the money and SURPRISE! It worked!

NOTE: The public school grad rates are higher than the private and charter school grad rates in the above county. Probably not an outlier.

"Since the start of Governor DeSantis' administration, Florida's high school graduation rate has surged from 70.6% to this year's record-breaking 89.7%. This growth reflects the success of policies emphasizing school choice, parent empowerment, and tailored educational solutions."

If they have increased funding, why not brag about it right there?

How much has the funding increased?

#10 | POSTED BY EBERLY AT 2025-01-11 12:32 PM | FLAG: Ah, the mistaken dem belief that if you throw more oney at a problem it will get better.

Google how our students in the 70s scored against those in other countries as opposed to now days. You will find that we've fallen in standings, yet we spend more per student than the majority that are scoring better than us.

Fact is we've started failing after the founding of the Dept Of Ed under carter [fed govt got its grubbie fingers into the states' public school systems]. With the libbie dems' influence from there, along with, in recent decades, the rise of the liberal run teachers' unions, it isn o wonder that things have gone downhill, even though we spend more now than ever before in the education system.

Remember that government is not the answer, as usually [in most cases] it is the problem.

Ah, the mistaken dem belief that if you throw more oney at a problem it will get better.

Like the $17 million dollars cut from the LAFD budget?

You idiots been screeching how that would have helped firefighters put out these Los Angeles fires already.

But you're sure spending more money on public education won't help the teachers and students?

You really are a stupid son of a *itch.

Don't worry about posting anymore. Everything you write comes from a Facebook meme you've memorized.

Doing a lot more this year on funding, too. Proudly announcing it:

Tallahassee, Fla., June 12, 2024 " Today, the Florida Department of Education (FDOE) applauds Governor DeSantis' Focus on Florida's Future Budget, which continues to raise teacher salaries, make significant per-student investments, and advance Florida's unrivaled commitment to school choice. Governor DeSantis' budget includes an additional $201.8 million for teacher salaries, bringing the total to an unprecedented $1.25 billion. Additionally, the Governor approved over $570 million towards school safety and mental health, including $20 million in security funding for Jewish Days Schools and $20 million in school hardening grants for Florida's Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

Brings the investment in teacher's salaries up $4.6 billion since 2020. As I said, it's nice to move from 59.2% to almost 89.7%. It's funny watching the libertarians and others say it's due to "X" or "Y" (competition, eradicating DEI, blah blah blah) while ignoring

www.fldoe.org

The reason should be obvious. With all the political bullshht and pressure on teachers, Florida was losing teachers - and they had to do something to try and stem the high attribution and inability to hire and retain.

2021 - DeSantis:

Secured the highest ever per-pupil spending totals at $7,795 per student in the 2020-2021 fiscal year.
Secured the highest ever K-12 public school funding, with $22.8 billion in state and local funding.

www.fldoe.org

It's this way in Florida. They only do something when this shht hits the fan. like Scott did back in 2014:

"Tallahassee, Fla., January 29, 2014 - Governor Rick Scott today announced details of his "It's Your Money Tax Cut Budget" which includes historic state and total funding levels for Florida's K-12 public schools and for the Florida College System."

www.fldoe.org

Maybe one day, Florida can dream of having a literacy rate of Cuba's.

In 2022 Florida's graduation rate was 89.7% (COVID adjusted, so DeSantis removed that year for "not being equal") making this the first official year of "89.7%". In 2022 at 89.7% Florida was 33rd in state rankings for this metric. I doubt that's changed. Yet now we hear DeSantis and right-wing media saying how Florida should be the example. Idiots.

Teachers here try so hard, too. I know many and they are dedicated and frustrated. So many retired early because of DeSantis and the GOP.

Opal - Happy Nightmare Baby (1987)
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Lyrics excerpt ...

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...
Happy nightmare, baby
Happy nightmare, baby
Cause you're mine, all mine

We're gonna go for a ride
Gonna go for a ride
Down in the city tonight

Gonna be my baby
Will you be my baby?
Tonight, tonight

Our love is gone
Our love is gone
Into the night, into the night

Close your eyes, come along with me
Down into the bottom of the sea

Happy nightmare, baby
Happy nightmare, baby
Cause you're mine, all mine

Gonna be my baby
Will you be my baby?
Tonight, tonight
...

Quite the odd tune.

Re 15
I wonder if the Florida students might have an advantage by not having to deal with books and such, or have books been allowed back into the schools?

All the history books are about the glorious history of the Europeans braving the dangerous Americas.

There were no native inhabitants before the Europeans arrived.

Black people came for jobs and opportunity.

Mexicans immigrated to take the jobs of hard working European Americans.

Jesus blessed this nation.

Sounds about right. That should take one day of class time. I wonder what they do the rest of the time, although I probably don't want to know.

DeSantis also boasts of half a million Florida students on vouchers, shifting money away from public education into the mitts of homeschoolers and operations dedicated to limiting knowledge and critical thinking.

Like the $17 million dollars cut from the LAFD budget?

#12 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-11 04:44 PM | Reply | Flag:

You say that like the $17 million dollars was put into surplus, when the reality is Mayor Ghana-Resign found something shiny and more important to spend it on.

You say that like the $17 million dollars was put into surplus,

I say that to point out the hypocrisy of republicans who time and again say more money for public schools won't help.

Yet are sure more money would have put out the fires before it became a catastrophe.

For the record. We should give more money to both firefighters and public schools.

But I doubt republicans want to give more money to either.

They're only harping on the $17 million as a way to attack democrats.

Maybe one day, Florida can dream of having a literacy rate of Cuba's.
#14 | POSTED BY DBT2 AT

Maybe one day Califoria can dream of having a literacy rate of Florida.

California has the lowest literacy rate of any state, data suggests

Decades of underinvestment in schools, culture battles over bilingual education, and stark income inequality have made California the least literate state in the nation, as Capitol Weekly reported.
Nearly 1 in 4 people over the age of 15 lack the skills to decipher the words in this sentence. Only 77% of adults are considered mid- to highly literate, according to the nonpartisan data crunchers at World Population Review.
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Just more incompetence in one of the taxed states in the US.

Like the $17 million dollars cut from the LAFD budget?
#12 | Posted by ClownShack

Exactly like it.

" one of the taxed states in the US."

Which states aren't taxed?!?

Like the $17 million dollars cut from the LAFD budget?

This is not a true statement. $17 million was not cut from the LAFD budget.

"With the new contract, the budget for the fire department in Fiscal Year 2024 - 2025 increased from $819.6 million to $895.6 million. When compared to the previous year's budget (Fiscal Year 2023 - 2024), this current year's fire department budget in total is larger by $58.4 million. According to a document from the city administrative officer, the increase in this year's budget was approved specifically to meet salary and benefit increases included in the new union contract." abc7.com

"Despite the budget cuts, the city approved an additional $53 million in pay raises for firefighters and another $58 million for new firetrucks and other equipment in November, increasing the LAFD's budget by more than 7% over the previous fiscal year, the Los Angeles Times reported." www.forbes.com

"But while her citywide spending proposal was being reviewed (a reduction to LAFD's budget), Bass was also in closed-door negotiations over a major boost in pay for the city's 3,300 firefighters. Those pay hikes " four years of raises and an array of other financial incentives " were not finalized until several months after her budget went into effect.

The City Council approved the firefighter raises in November, adding more than $53 million in additional salary costs. By then, the council had also signed off on $58 million for new firetrucks and other department purchases.

Once those two line items were added, the Fire Department's operating budget actually grew by more than 7% compared to the prior fiscal year, according to the city's financial analysts." www.firerescue1.com