Kansas and federal officials reportedly are trying to reconcile puzzling differences in the ways high school dropout rates are being calculated; for example, Kansas put its 2001-02 graduation rate at 85 percent, but a recent national study put the state’s rate that year at 74 percent. Meanwhile, those on the front lines of crime and punishment might want to ponder some revealing related statistics, as reported by The Hutchinson News: Last year, 40 percent of Kansas’ 9,100 inmates were high school dropouts, and just 5 percent had received postsecondary education.
Posted by Rhonda Holman
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