Word: dropouts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hard to go against national demographics," Brockett says, pointing to the high dropout rate among prospective engineering students...
...Fernando, my alma mater, is fairly typical of the sprawling L.A. Unified School District, the nation's second largest. And typically, it is in deep trouble. Despite vigorous efforts by a strongly committed core of teachers and administrators, the school's vital indicators are startlingly bleak. The yearly 20% dropout rate is more than double the California average, and a quarter of the student body is absent on any given day. In reading and math, San Fernando seniors rank in the bottom 5% statewide...
...latest dropout is Democrat Madeleine Kunin of Vermont, who announced last week that she will not seek a fourth term. She has been forced to cut ; social programs and propose a 3% income tax hike. Kunin blames Washington for "telling the American public they can have it both ways: no tax increases and increased social services. Unfortunately, Governors can't play by these rules...
...takeover-crazed 1980s, a cheeky business-school dropout named Donald Carter transformed the humdrum job of counting ballots at corporate shareholder meetings into a multimillion-dollar business. As head of the Carter Organization, he orchestrated campaigns to persuade shareholders to back corporate raiders. For his work, he collected ten times the going rate. But the proxy prince scooped up some illegal gravy as well. Last week in a New York State court, Carter pleaded guilty to stealing $1 million from his clients through false billing...
Advocates of reform continue to believe the radical restructuring of Chicago schools will ultimately help lower the city's 41% dropout rate and raise college entrance examination scores, now ranked among the lowest in the U.S. "Who has the purest commitment to the education of children?" asks State Senator Arthur Berman, who chaired the committee that drafted the 1988 decentralization law. "The answer is the parents...