Thursday, March 1, 2007

Low on-time graduation rate in North Carolina

Another low mark for North Carolina has been released. Despite the Governor's stated position that he is the "education" governor the state can't seem to get it right in helping our children be the leaders in quality education. A new article published March 1, 2007, in the News and Observer clearly shows NC has a much lower graduation track record than previously told...
Only 68% graduate on time in N.C.
State needs concerted effort to pull kids through high school, educators say
RALEIGH - After years of claiming that nearly all public high school students graduated, the state released figures Wednesday showing that their actual performance is far worse.

The state Department of Public Instruction said 68.1 percent of freshmen who entered high school in 2002 graduated four years later. In previous years, the state used a different calculation method and said the rate was more than 90 percent.

"If I could, I would expunge those numbers," said state school Superintendent June Atkinson. "They were absolutely meaningless, useless pieces of information." Read more...

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