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Speaker 1: Boston Mayor Michelle wu is praising the class of twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five for breaking graduation records.

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Speaker 2: Boston Public School's graduation rate was eighty one point three percent,

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Speaker 2: that highest rate in recorded history since the state began

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Speaker 2: collecting all the numbers and publishing them in two thousand

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Speaker 2: and six.

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Speaker 1: BPS Superintendent Mary Skipper says the dropout rate was the

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Speaker 1: second best in history, only trailing the COVID year.

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Speaker 3: With remote learning, we've been able to undertake a redesign

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Speaker 3: of alternative at for students who are off track and

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Speaker 3: need and really want to get a diploma, but they

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Speaker 3: don't know how.

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Speaker 1: Now it's the class of twenty twenty six is time

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Speaker 1: to shine, and dearborn Academy students taking early college classes.

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Speaker 4: Like Jay Bonnie are ready to keep pumping up those numbers.

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Speaker 5: My message to the upcoming Dibbin Wolfermines is to never

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Speaker 5: stop applying yourself and you will achieve all your goals.

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Speaker 1: From Roxbury, I'm Jared Brosen and WBZ, Boston's news radio