NEA: Earn a Diploma or Stay in School Until Age 21
Touting graduation is part of the union's strategy for dealing with the NCLB law.
The nation’s largest teachers’ union is pushing compulsory high school graduation as an important step toward reducing the number of dropouts.
The National Education Association released a 12-point plan at the National Press Club here last week for stemming a national dropout rate it says amounts to a crisis. The recommendations include such familiar prescriptions as universal preschool and more varied offerings for high schoolers, along with a proposal for states to make it illegal for students younger than 21 to leave school before getting a diploma.
Only one state, New Mexico, legally requires high school graduation. Seventeen states and the District of Columbia set the school-leaving age at 18, while the rest put it at 16 or 17,...
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