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To: Brumar89 who wrote (887099)	9/12/2015 2:48:42 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576159

It's important to educate who won't go to college too. I would not mention the Texas graduation rate again, if I were you.......you've got nothing but "dropout factories."...what an embarrassment!!!.... What has happened in the Dallas district could provide one answer for the increase in graduation rates. A preliminary internal audit from the school district, obtained by The Dallas Morning News, showed that as many as “a quarter of the class of 2013” should not have earned diplomas, because of lacking documentation under so-called principal plans. The policy, which allows principals to pass students who would have failed because of poor attendance if they made up their absences under predesigned plans, came from a state law that was passed in 2007. Spurred by a 2005 Texas Supreme Court ruling against the school finance system that warned of a “ severe dropout problem,” calling the trailing graduation rates of blacks and Hispanics in the state “especially troublesome,” the Legislature passed a slate of reforms aimed at dropout prevention.