Illiterate high school graduates suing school districts as Ivy League professor warns of 'deeper problem'
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Students from Tennessee and Connecticut who say they can't read or write after graduating high school are suing their respective public school systems.
"This kid can't read." "She told them that she was concerned that she was not prepared for college…" "This is a real problem, and it's a failure at its core of our educational system." Audrey Conklin is a digital reporter for Fox News Digital and FOX Business. Email tips to audrey.conklin@fox.com or on Twitter at @audpants.
"I think these cases reflect a deeper problem in education. For each of these cases, there are probably tens of thousands of students who never got a proper education — they get pushed along the system," Jacobson said. "Unfortunately … we've created incentives, particularly for public school systems, to just push students along and not to hold them accountable."
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