News in Brief: A State Capitals Roundup
About two out of every five students in Texas who start high school
do not graduate, according to new research that appears to contrast
sharply with recent state estimates.
The study by the Intercultural Development Research Association, a nonprofit organization in San Antonio, found that roughly 39 percent of students tracked from the freshman class of 1998-99 through their senior year in 2001-02 dropped out of high school before graduation. The rate for 2001-02 improved by about 1 percentage point from the previous year.
The IDRA dropout data has been collected annually since 1986. Since the 1994-1995 graduating class, the state's dropout rate has wavered between 40 percent and 43 percent, according to the research and policy organization, which seeks to improve school equity and increase educational access for poor and minority students and...
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