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Statement from Secretary Duncan on NCES Public School Graduates and Dropouts Report

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 22, 2013.

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“The new NCES reportis good news. After three decades of stagnation, the on-time graduation rate for high school students in the 2009-10 school year [78.2 percent] is the highest it’s been since at least 1974. It’s encouraging that the on-time graduation rate is up substantially from four years earlier. And it’s promising that high school graduation rates are up for all ethnic groups in 2010 — especially for Hispanics, whose…

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