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Article: Michigan Dropout Crisis Costs $2. 5 Billion Annually
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- April 30, 2008
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The Michigan Education Association issued the following news release:
Finding ways to fix Michigan's dropout crisis is the focus of public hearings beginning next week, part of a statewide initiative to increase the number of high school graduates to stabilize a weak economy.
By some estimates, about 20,000 Michigan students drop out of school every year. According to Columbia University's prestigious Teachers College, boosting high school graduation rates would save $127,000 per new graduate through extra tax revenues, reduced costs of public health, crime and justice, and decreased welfare payments. Every year that passes without a solution to the dropout crisis drains another $2.5 ...