Wisconsin had the largest gap in the nation in high school graduation rates between white and black students in 2017, with black students trailing their white peers by nearly 30 percent. It’s the third year in a row that the state has had the largest black-white high school graduation gap in the country. This hour, we’ll delve into why this problem is so severe in Wisconsin. We’ll also take a look at how Chicago managed to close its racial graduation gap by more than 16 percentage points over 5 years.
