Public school students dropped out last year at a record low rate. George Olsen has more.
A press release from the state Department of Public Instruction says the drop-out rate in public schools last school year was 2.28 percent, a nearly 7 percent decrease from the prior year’s then-record-low rate of 2.45 percent. DPI says there were decreases in 65 of the state’s 115 school districts. That included two school districts – Hyde and Tyrrell – that reported zero dropouts. The only ethnic group where the rate went up was American Indian, with all other groups posting declines or remaining the same. Men accounted for nearly two-thirds of the 2013-2014 school year drop-outs. I’m George Olsen.
