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NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's schools chancellor says high school graduation rates are up slightly while dropout rates are down.
Carmen Farina says in a statement Monday just over 70 percent of the class of 2015 graduated, a 2 percent increase over 2014.
She says at the same time the dropout rate in the nation's largest school district fell nine percent.
End-of-the-year statistics show that the trends held true across demographic groups, though vast racial disparities in graduation rates still exist.
Education data show that 64 percent of Hispanic and 65.4 percent of black students graduated in 2015. That compares to 85 percent of Asian and 82 percent of white students.
Farina says the percentage of students who met two college readiness standards also increased.
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