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.