The city is behind the rest of the state when it comes to students earning the relatively prestigious Regents high school diploma, an analysis of state graduation data shows.
Numbers obtained by The New York Sun yesterday also show that the rate of city students earning the Regents diploma has improved significantly over years past — after the state education department passed new regulations making it easier to earn one.
Sixty-eight percent of city students graduated at the Regents level last year, almost double the rate of past years, when it had been languishing at about a third. Outside of New York City, 87% of students earned the Regents diploma.
The percentage of city students graduating in four years with the less rigorous local diploma — 32% — was twice the percentage of graduates who earned a local diploma elsewhere in the state.
