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Friday, April 4, 2008

Fed Requires States to Use Single Drop-out Formula

On April 1st, the Bush administration announced it will require states and school systems to report high school graduation rates, which have long been subjectively submitted, in a uniform way. Margaret Spellings, the Secretary of Education, made this announcement on the heels of another report that reported a graduation rate of less than 50% in major cities across the US.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/?i=53380;_hbguid=c02b97fe-f8f3-4b9e-9e6b-faaf6ce716aa

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