State educators say a recent report is incorrect.
The N.C. Department of Public Instruction says a report by the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center got the state's own calculation of its dropout rate wrong.
The report said the state figured it had a 95 percent graduation rate — far above the report's own calculation of 67 percent using a different methodology.
But DPI spokeswoman Vanessa Jeter wrote Dome in an e-mail that the state's figures actually showed a dropout rate of 69.4 percent, much closer to the report's figure.
After the report came out, Deputy Superintendent J.B. Buxton wrote the researchers on June 3 to inform them of the error and request a correction.
"In presenting the report's findings at a news conference, the researchers acknowledged that North Carolina's numbers were out-of-date in the report and that our state has made significant progress in reporting the issue of high school graduation rates," Jeter wrote.
Previously: N.C. dropout rate ranked 12th worst.
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