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State public school dropout rate on the rise

PRE News & Ideas | By George Olsen
Published March 4, 2016 at 9:34 AM EST

The state’s public schools experienced the first increase in the dropout rate in nearly 10 years. George Olsen has more.

A report presented this week to the state Board of Education revealed the public school dropout rate in 2014-2015 was 2.39 percent, up from 2.28 percent the previous year. That was the first increase in the dropout rate since 2006-2007 when the rate was 5.24 percent.  In the last school year 11,190 students dropped out compared to 10,404 the prior year. The increase in drop outs occurred in all grade levels and ethnic groups except for among Asians.  Nearly two-thirds of drop-outs were male. I’m George Olsen.
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George Olsen
George Olsen is a 1977 Havelock High School graduate. He received his B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from the University of South Carolina in 1982 where he got his first taste of non-commercial radio working for their student station WUSC. After graduation he worked about five years in commercial radio before coming to work at Public Radio East where he has remained since outside of a nearly 3-year stint as jazz and operations coordinator at WUAL in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in the early 1990s. On his return to eastern North Carolina he hosted classical music for Public Radio East before moving into the Morning Edition host position and now can be heard on All Things Considered. He also hosts and produces The Sound, five hours of Americana, Roots Rock and Contemporary Folk weekday evenings on PRE Public Radio East News & Ideas, and is a news and feature producer for Public Radio East.
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