Prometheus 6

You can't blame libruls for this one...

"Calling them 'dropout factories' is just wrong. It's offensive to the many great men and women who give their lives to teaching children every day," he said.

Maria Cuca Robledo, director of the Intercultural Development Research Association, said the term is "accurate" and noted that about 70 percent of the 2.7 million Texas students who left school during her group's study period were Hispanic or black.

Are we yet ready to admit the whole plan was supposed to dismantle public education?

Report points to 'dropout factories'
Study highlights 185 Texas schools losing students quickly, including 42 in Houston area
By GARY SCHARRER
Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle Austin Bureau

AUSTIN — Texas has 185 high schools, including 42 in the eight-county Houston area, that are hemorrhaging students fast enough to be called "dropout factories" in a new national report.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University, who conducted the study for The Associated Press, applied that label to high schools with an attrition rate of 40 percent or higher — which amounted to one in 10 high schools across America.

The report's release coincides with a Texas study by the San Antonio-based Intercultural Development Research Association showing a 34 percent statewide attrition rate for the 2006 graduating class.

"This is the time bomb. This is the tsunami that started already," said Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, D-San Antonio, a member of the Senate Education Committee.

"If you look at our demographics, we have got to solve this problem," she said of school dropouts, which she considers probably our No. 1 problem in the state of Texas.

Losing 40 percent of each high school class eventually will bring on a colossal economic crisis for Texas, Van de Putte said.

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