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Report: Louisiana Graduation Rates

Reported by Logan Leger on Tue, Jun 09th, 2009 in News and tagged: , , ,

The Louisiana Department of Education issued a press release today about graduation rates in our state. They report increases in several categories and other accolades given to the state by magazines and other associations. We received an overall grade of C and are first in using technology to augment education.

Louisiana’s overall graduation is around 61%. The national average is about 70% and about 100 Louisiana students drop out of school a day and we’re still ranked 44th overall in education.

It seems that the only place the state is doing well is graduating Hispanics and African-Americans. All statistics for those communities are either equal to or exceed national averages.

It’s always good to see our state improving, but I hope it’s clear to everyone that we still to have a long, long way to go.

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