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    American high schools have high drop-out rates. What can Congress do to curb this trend?

    Asked 47 weeks 22 hours ago of All U.S. Congress
    by elvin from Boston, MA

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    American high schools have high drop-out rates. What can Congress do to curb this trend?

    Asked by: elvin from Boston, MA. Received 44 Votes.
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    Listen to: 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

    Answered on Jan 6th, 2008 More

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