7 out of 40 AK high schools on John Hopkins "dropout factories" report

[rainbow4321]

This needs to be thrown up in the MSM if Palin tries to say she has/ will do wonderful things for education!



Includes Wasilla High!!!!!!!!!!!


http://www.ktuu.com/global/story.asp?s=7289165

Study gives Wasilla High School failing grade
Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2007


A recent study by Johns Hopkins University aimed to identify schools across the U.S. with particularly high dropout rates. Several schools here in Alaska received failing grades. Of the 40 high schools in the state, seven made the list. One of them is in the Mat-Su District.

The data used by Johns Hopkins researchers came from the National Center for Education and tracked senior classes for three years from 2004 until 2006.

Schools named as "dropout factories" by the study found that 60 percent or fewer of students who start as freshmen make it through their senior year.

Last year, Wasilla High's dropout percentage was 6.5 percent, a number much lower than the majority of all the schools in the Mat-Su School District.