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    commas, bro

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    Academically, it is one of the worst-performing schools in the state: by graduation, only 13 percent of Kelley students will have achieved basic literacy.”

    13% literacy rate by graduation, yikes.

    I've lived in philly, and the culture shock is real. But I still would have guessed more like 25% of the kids coming out of public schools there were literate.