U.S. to Require States to Use a Single School Dropout Formula
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Moving to sweep away the tangle of inaccurate state data that has obscured the severity of the nation’s high school dropout crisis, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings will require all states to use one federal formula to calculate graduation and dropout rates, Bush administration officials said on Monday.
3 comments | Tags: dropout epidemic federal register america’s promise alliance colin l. powell | Topic: Secondary BAD >_<
but....
we also need consistancy in looking at the reason behind the high drop out rate and fixing the source... not just how we report it.
At least we are moving towards something