UNDATED -- Graduating kids from school is the future, its all about making sure our kids and grand kids have a better life than we did and we are only getting a “C” grade for the job we are doing in Michigan. As kids get ready to head back to school all over Michigan, state officials are announcing that dropout rates are not as bad as some have claimed. Some reports have trashed dropout rates in public schools, especially in Michigan's urban districts. A new report from Michigan's Center for Educational Performance and Information says that more than three-quarters of the high school students who started 9th grade in 2003, graduated last year. Meanwhile, just 15-percent dropped out. They say they used a different, more accurate method of measuring graduation rates this year: One that follows kids through their full four-year high school careers. The Governor isn't thrilled, though. Jennifer Granholm has issued a statement saying it isn't good enough, and highlighting her plan for smaller high schools as a potential solution. While the 2007 graduation rate statewide was 75-percent, the rates around here were a little different. ---In Portage, 83-percent of students graduated on-time, while next door in Kalamazoo, only 69-percent managed to make it through the curriculum in four years. At Kalamazoo Central they graduated 88% and at Loy Norrix 73%. It was a much lower rate at the Alternative High school that brings the district avera ...
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UNDATED -- Graduating kids from school is the future, its all about making sure our kids and grand kids have a better life than we did and we are only getting a “C” grade for the job we are doing in Michigan. As kids get ready to head back to school all over Michigan, state officials are announcing that dropout rates are not as bad as some have claimed. Some reports have trashed dropout rates in public schools, especially in Michigan's urban districts. A new report from Michigan's Center for Educational Performance and Information says that more than three-quarters of the high school students who started 9th grade in 2003, graduated last year. Meanwhile, just 15-percent dropped out. They say they used a different, more accurate method of measuring graduation rates this year: One that follows kids through their full four-year high school careers. The Governor isn't thrilled, though. Jennifer Granholm has issued a statement saying it isn't good enough, and highlighting her plan for smaller high schools as a potential solution. While the 2007 graduation rate statewide was 75-percent, the rates around here were a little different. ---In Portage, 83-percent of students graduated on-time, while next door in Kalamazoo, only 69-percent managed to make it through the curriculum in four years. At Kalamazoo Central they graduated 88% and at Loy Norrix 73%. It was a much lower rate at the Alternative High school that brings the district avera ...