37% - A CBS2 Special Investigation On How A Fix For Schools Went Wrong

A 37% high school graduation rate: It's one of the lowest in America, on par with juvenile justice centers and a handful of the nation's poorest inner city schools.

Welcome to Hempstead, Long Island.

Despite hundreds of millions of public dollars spent every year, the Hempstead School District has been called a disastrous educational system.

In this Special Production, CBS2 News spends a full academic year behind the scenes, following the accomplished educator who came in with a plan to change the fate of the students and reverse chronic reputed mismanagement.

How did he fare?

Watch the dramatic unraveling of a plan as he is "schooled" in one of the few public educational systems in America of its size where only half of the students graduate — in a good year.

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• Hempstead