The continued trend of high school dropouts in our public schools has placed South Carolina in a precarious position for its policy in dealing with what will be a costly legacy.
There are a number of organizations that examine and report on dropout rates for South Carolina. The most recent data analysis indicates the cohort graduation rate of the class of 2008 was only 61 percent- or a dropout rate of 39 percent (the SC Department of Education reports a dropout rate of less than 4 percent each year since 1999). Read the rest of this entry »
