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Answer from: U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA)

Oh there’s a lot we can do to fix that in the rewrite on No Child Left Behind, we plan to focus on those high schools that produce the greatest number of dropouts, to try to put together a plan for those high schools, to also focus on those schools that feed into those high schools.You know have about two-thousand high schools that produce almost fifty-percent of the drop-outs in the country and so we want to start looking at how’d we improve the graduation rates, how we help the schools attract students to come back to school, maybe even some of the students who’ve dropped out come back and finish their diploma. We’re seeing some success in New York City and other areas to bring students back and have them graduate, even if its not in four years, it takes extra time, but it’s certainly worth it to have them get their diploma.

Answered on Jan 6th, 2008