Bobby Scott actually said...

If you don't have a dropout rate factor, then you have a perverse incentive to let people drop out.

Scott criticizes the lack of dropout rate accountability in educational policies.

05/11/2009

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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 y...

the Every Student Counts Act introduced by Representative Bobby Scott (H.R. 1569).

Those that drop out are much less likely to get a job, make a lot more--businesses don't want to move into areas where there is a high dropo...

The regulation must be maintained and strengthened through inclusion of ESCA into a reauthorization of ESEA.