According to a new report released by, a children’s advocacy organization founded by General Colin Powell, the national graduation rate increased by 3.5-percent to 75.5-percent between 2001 and 2009. Colleen Wilbur with Americas Promise Alliance says Florida made major gains in the number of students who graduate…
TAG: According to this year’s Building a Grad Nation Report, the number of so-called “drop-out factories,” those schools with graduation rates below 60-percent, has fallen in Florida from 162 in 2002 to 100 in 2010.