06/27/2017
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"The Everyone Graduates bill sponsored by Representative Bobby Scott (D-VA) achieves this and should be passed."
"If you don't have a dropout rate factor, then you have a perverse incentive to let people drop out."
"One study showed that African Americans that drop out of high school have about a one-third chance of being in jail when they are 26 to 30 years old."
"you really have to wonder what kind of people would look at a child in the third grade that can't read, knowing that that problem will put them on a trajectory towards prisons, and start building pris..."