High levels of funding != quality education. Washington DC schools recently celebrated a rise in graduation rate, to 64%. [1] My brother went to public high sc

High levels of funding != quality education. Washington DC schools recently celebrated a rise in graduation rate, to 64%. [1] My brother went to public high school in Washington DC graduating in 2008. His school had tracking, meaning you could only take classes available in your "track". A student was in either all honors/advanced classes or in all regular classes but could not take a mix of both. The regular track was exclusively black, while the honors track was for white and/or rich students, regardless of actual academic performance! Unless a non-white student is both high achieving and has parents who are able to navigate the bureaucratic nightmare that is the DC public schools (it was a mess even for upper-middle class white students like my brother) they don't really have an opportunity for anything other than a poor education. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/graduation-rates-surge-for-dc-public-schools-reaching-64-percent-in-2015/2015/09/29/57f53cbe-66c9-11e5-9ef3-fde182507eac_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/graduation-ra...