North Carolina's Graduation Crisis

June 18, 2010 | Posted in
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This week Education Week and the Editorial Projects in Education (EPE) Research Center released the 2010 Diplomas Count study on national graduation rates. The results for North Carolina were worse than reported to the U.S. Department of Education in recent years, and those figures were already bad.

Here are some key statistics:
 
57.8% – percentage of 9th grade students in North Carolina that graduate within 4 years
 
46th – North Carolina’s national rank in terms of graduation rates
 
299 – number of students that drop out of school every day in North Carolina
 
41% – percentage of African American and Hispanic males that graduate high school
 
4th – North Carolina’s national rank in terms of suspension/expulsion rates
 
23% – percentage of increase in public school per pupil spending
 
-0.5% – percentage that North Carolina’s graduation rate has fallen over the last 10 years
 
0 – number of new or innovative options the North Carolina education establishment has provided to families over those 10 years
 
 
With results like these, clearly the status quo and pouring more money into the same old solutions is not cutting it. North Carolina’s families deserve better from policymakers. 

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