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Article: SEN. BINGAMAN APPLAUDS EFFORTS TO ADDRESS COUNTRY'S DROPOUT CRISIS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- April 22, 2008
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The office of Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., issued the following news release:
U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman today said the U.S. Department of Education's proposed changes to No Child Left Behind are a step in the right direction.
Education Secretary Margaret Spellings has announced the department will put in place a definition of "high school graduation rate" that has been agreed to by all 50 governors. Currently, states are not required to calculate graduation rates in the same way, which makes it difficult to get an accurate or useful graduation rate for states, school districts, or schools.
"Without accurate information on which students are not graduating from high school, we risk not ...