In Austin, High School Diplomas Worth Millions
A high school diploma is touted as the bare minimum students need to achieve. And now a new study ties the financial value of high school graduation to the Austin region’s economy.
The Alliance for Excellent Education, a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit focused on improving national graduation rates, has released a study detailing the effects on Austin’s regional economy if the amount of high school dropouts was cut in half — with benefits reaching into the millions.
It’s estimated that in the Austin-Round Rock Metropolitan Statistical Area, some 6,100 students dropped out of the class of ...
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gypsy314 ne
I could see how for illegal aliens and terrorist. Anyone but Obama the fraud and the liar democrats!
Alice Taylor
So what they're saying that a HS graduate will pump an extra 12 grand a year for each year in his working life into the local economy over the dropout's rates.
Yet our legislature doesn't see the payoff in properly funding 4 years of high school. They wouldn't even use money in the rainy day fund that was THERE for funding education during economic downturns.
The penny-wise-pound-foolish economics boggles my mind. It's almost as if some of our elected officials believe that poverty is a boon and education a boondoggle.