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Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Indiana is now NUMBER 1!

. . in the percentage of high school dropouts in the nation.

According to the 2006 Kids Count Data Book, 13% of Hoosiers between the ages of 16 and 19 were high school dropouts in 2004, ranking us at 50th in the nation. Neighboring Ohio ranked 13th with a 6% dropout rate for the same age category.

While dropout rates nationally have decreased by 3% between 2000 and 2004, Indiana's rate has remained flat. This trend doesn't reflect the countywide numbers here in Northeast Indiana, where most counties saw decreases in the dropout rate between 1996 and 2004.

Read more on this here in today's Journal Gazette.

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posted by John Good @ 8:28 PM 

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