Texas' Rank in Graduation Rate Study Presents a Contrast
According to a new report from the National Center for Education Statistics, 78.9 percent of the high schoolers in Texas' Class of 2010 graduated within four years, a rate slightly above the national average but contrasting with another federal study that ranked the state much higher.
Texas' rate in the NCES study was an increase of about 3 percentage points from 2009. Late last year, data released in November by the U.S. Department of Education ranked Texas, along with five other states, fourth in the nation for its four-year high school graduation rates. In that report, the state ...
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Darrel Mulloy via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Someone once said that average is just a good grade of poor.
Carolyn Moon via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The schools do a lot of fudging to make kids who leave look like they're really leaving the state or something.
Bobby Hawthorne via Texas Tribune on Facebook
We've moved ahead of Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama. Yippee!
Rudy Gonzales
Texas' high school graduation rates should rank as excellent, but due to cut backs by the Texas Legislature in accordance with the Libertarian mandated requirement and TEA-type pressures, graduation rate have tanked over the past 20 years. The Texas Legislature have shirked their responsibility to the children just like they shirked their responsibility by deregulation of the electrical providers of the Texas Grid. Legislators are working hard to privatize education at the expense and utilizing public funding for private schools. In doing so, they will set up schools with minimal standards while providing high value, quality education in private schools with funding from public funding. Anyone who hasn't seen this effort has blinders over their eyes. Texas' school children deserve better, but as long as TEA-Republican's hold and control the Legislature and Governors office, little will get accomplished. It is time Texans brought the state out of the last century and gain on schools of the northeast. Vote out the old guard and elect new blood from the Democratic party to really get something done!