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June 24, 2005
Study: High School Graduation Rates Mis-reported
Now, a year and a half after the Department declared its commitment to tackling the graduation-rate issue headon17, little has changed— the fundamental problem of states calculating and reporting faulty graduation rates remains largely unaddressed. The states that have taken responsibility and steps to improve their graduation-rate calculations and reporting have done so in spite of, not because of, the Department’s actions. And the states that have continued to calculate and report inaccurate data without consequence have lost yet another year that they could have used to build public support for the hard work of improving results for students.
High School Graduation Rates Innacurate