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Showing posts with label high school dropouts. Show all posts
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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Perdue: grad coaches helping at-risk kids

Governor Sonny Perdue on Wednesday announced Georgia’s high school drop-out rate is down for a second straight year. More than 2,200 fewer students, or around a 10-percent decrease in kids, left school early. Perdue says some of the credit should be given to the state’s graduation coaches--an idea started in 2006.

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