People do a lot of talking about how the state needs to get more students to graduate from high school. Legislators now want goals to back up the chatter.
Legislators are on the verge of recommending that the state Board of Education set a goal of having a 90 percent graduation rate by 2015. The Joint Legislative Commission on Dropout Prevention and High School Graduation put the recommendation in a draft report today, Lynn Bonner reports.
Only about 70 percent of the students who entered 9th grade five years ago graduated by 2008. Legislators called the 90 percent target an "aggressive" goal.
Legislators want each school district to have its own yearly goals beginning with the class of 2010.
"Everyone knows how serious this is," said state Rep. Earline Parmon, the commission's co-chairwoman. "We should be working together to achieve this goal."
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