One in Three Texas students don’t graduate
One-third of students in Texas don’t graduate | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
One-third of students in Texas don’t graduateOne out of three Texas students don’t graduate, and more students drop out than finish high school in the state’s largest cities, according to education experts.
Statewide, more than 2.5 million students have dropped out of Texas high schools in the last 20 years, and each graduating class loses about 120,000 students from freshman year to senior year, according to the San Antonio-based Intercultural Development Research Association.
The research group says more than half of students in Texas’ largest cities drop out. The dropout rate among blacks, Hispanics and low-income students is about 60 percent, according to the Center for Education at Rice University.
The statewide dropout rate is about 33 percent — or 20 points higher than what the Texas Education Agency reports.
Experts warn that the high dropout rate will lead to economic and social problems.
I am speechless. How is that for No Child Left Behind.
You have to wonder what exemptions the TEA is using to get their lower figure. Maybe they are using the Rod Paige’s “Texas Miracle” type accounting.
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