The High Cost of High School Dropouts: What the Nation Pays for Inadequate High Schools

This is from 2009 so, if anything, the stats are even more of a concern today. Well worth your time to understand how much dropouts cost our economy – Russ

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Every school day, more than seven thousand students become dropouts. Annually, that adds up
to about 1.3 million students who will not graduate from high school with their peers as
scheduled. Lacking a high school diploma, these individuals will be far more likely than
graduates to spend their lives periodically unemployed, on government assistance, or cycling in
and out of the prison system.

Full Report: http://www.matr.net/files/HighCostofdropouts.pdf

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