Native American Graduation Rates

"The Dropout/Graduation Crisis Among American Indian and Alaska Native Students: Failure to Respond Places the Future of Native Peoples at Risk"

On average, fewer than half of the American Indian and Alaska Native students in 12 states graduate from high school, says a report released last month by the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles of the University of California, Los Angeles. The report examines graduation-rate data from the seven states with the highest percentage of students who are American Indian and Alaska Native, and from five other states in the Pacific and Northwestern regions...