Sentences with phrase «around increasing high school graduation rates»
The Online Community is just one tool in our effort to support a broader learning community around increasing high school graduation rates.
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After increasing rapidly for most of the 20th century, the high school graduation rate peaked at about 80 percent around 1970.
«Our goal is to turn around the 5,000 lowest - performing schools over the next five years, as part of our overall strategy for dramatically reducing the dropout rate, improving high school graduation rates and increasing the number of students who graduate prepared for success in college and the workplace,» said Arne Duncan, the administration's new secretary of education in August of that year.
Since 1992, a handful of charter school networks have demonstrated remarkable success with high - poverty students, and high school graduation rates have increased slightly around the country.