Defining Quality Deserves More Thought Than A Graduation Rate
https://www.bluum.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Graduation-Rates-1024x411.png 1024 411 BLUUM BLUUM https://www.bluum.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Graduation-Rates-1024x411.pngIdaho’s State Board of Education President Don Soltman shared some data on graduation rates that triggered angst among educators and policy leaders. Recent figures from the 2013-14 school year showed Idaho ranked 41st in the nation with a graduation rate of just 77.3 percent. Stoltman presented this information along with especially troubling details that virtual charter schools and alternative schools graduated a drastically lower percentage, 20 percent and 36 percent respectively.
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