"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 dropout rate."
"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."
"It is hard to imagine any effective dropout program that does not save more money than it costs."
"If you don't have a dropout rate factor, then you have a perverse incentive to let people drop out."
"The Everyone Graduates bill sponsored by Representative Bobby Scott (D-VA) achieves this and should be passed."
"the Every Student Counts Act introduced by Representative Bobby Scott (H.R. 1569)."
"The regulation must be maintained and strengthened through inclusion of ESCA into a reauthorization of ESEA."
"One of the things that happens with dropouts is they are very likely to end up in jail."
"If you got a 50 percent dropout rate, 100 children, 50 percent drop out, that is 100, that is going to cost you about $5 million in prison expenses in, at least, many identifiable States."
"I have introduced the Youth Promise Act, which is very similar, to reduce youth violence, where you bring in law enforcement, education, foster care, the probation department, churches, after-school p..."
"Now, most of the programs that we have seen by research have shown that they can save more money than they cost."
"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..."