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This Week’s News: Youth in Transition
Education
With A Job, Life Improves For 9th Grade Dropout
NPR, Pennsylvania – December 27, 2011
This morning, we have an update on a story we first heard this past summer, as NPR aired a series about high school dropouts. In that series we heard from Kenny Buchanan. The 44-year-old dropped out when he was in the 9th grade. We met him not long after he got his GED in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.
2012 Kentucky Legislative Preview | Dropout bill and charter schools to return
The Courier-Journal, Frankfort, KY – December 29, 2011
With Kentucky’s student dropout rate hovering around 3 percent, Gov. Steve Beshear, lawmakers and education officials all expect raising the dropout age to remain a key issue in the 2012 legislative session.