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  • Who's dropped out of the 2020 presidential race?

    02/12/2020 11:34:08 AM PST · by jazusamo · 20 replies
    Fox News ^ | February 12, 2020 | Tyler Olson
    More than two-dozen candidates made a bid for either the Republican or Democratic nomination for president in the 2020 election cycle, making for especially crowded Democratic debate stages. But in the end, there can only be one nominee for each party. Here are the candidates who have dropped out of the race so far, ending their bids for the White House. Democrats Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo. -- Bennet, who ran as a moderate, stayed in the race until New Hampshire but struggled to gain any traction. He left the contest on Feb. 11. Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J. -- Booker was...
  • About 1.6M drop-outs from health law coverage this year

    06/30/2016 8:53:16 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 26 replies
    Associated Press ^ | Jun 30, 2016 6:39 PM EDT | Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
    About 1.6 million people who signed up for coverage this year under President Barack Obama’s health care law dropped out by the end of March, according to administration figures released late Thursday. The report from the Health and Human Services department said some 11.1 million people were still signed up. But that’s a drop of nearly 13 percent from the 12.7 million who initially enrolled for subsidized private coverage this year. Those dropouts failed to seal the deal by paying their premiums. …
  • Unintended consequences: More high school math, science linked to more dropouts

    08/04/2014 12:25:17 PM PDT · by Lorianne · 51 replies
    Phys Org ^ | 01 August 2014
    As U.S. high schools beef up math and science requirements for graduation, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have found that more rigorous academics drive some students to drop out. The research team reported in the June/July issue of the journal Educational Researcher that policies increasing the number of required high school math and science courses are linked to higher dropout rates. "There's been a movement to make education in the United States compare more favorably to education in the rest of the world, and part of that has involved increasing math and science graduation requirements," explained first author...
  • Report: High school dropouts cost economy billions

    02/25/2013 2:35:15 PM PST · by Olog-hai · 61 replies
    Associated Press ^ | Feb 25, 2013 5:07 PM EST | Philip Elliott
    High school dropouts are costing some $1.8 billion in lost tax revenue every year, education advocates said in a report released Monday. If states were to increase their graduation rates, state and federal lawmakers could be plugging their budgets with workers’ taxes instead of furloughing teachers, closing drivers-license offices and cutting unemployment benefits. While advocates tend to focus on the moral argument that all children deserve a quality education, they could just as easily look at budgets’ bottom lines. … Lawmakers in state capitols are making tough choices about whether to raise taxes to keep classroom lights on or to...
  • Trend: Dropouts might lose drivers licenses

    05/16/2011 9:14:03 AM PDT · by Libloather · 69 replies
    Deseret News ^ | 4/20/11 | Sara Lenz
    Trend: Dropouts might lose drivers licensesBy Sara Lenz, Deseret News Published: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 2:34 p.m. MDT Lawmakers around the country are looking at a new way to keep kids in school — not letting them get a drivers license if they drop out. Although Minnesota's law states that students only have to stay in school until they are 16, lawmakers there are considering a bill that would not allow school dropouts to get their license, the StarTribune reported on Tuesday. "Driving is not a right, it's a privilege, and it's perfectly within bounds for the state government to...
  • Teachers at low-performing school will be replaced [Los Angeles!]

    05/11/2011 2:06:16 PM PDT · by La Enchiladita · 22 replies
    My San Antonio ^ | May 10, 2011 | Staff
    The Los Angeles Unified School District board has agreed to replace at least half the teachers at a low-performing campus. The board approved the plan unanimously Tuesday despite a rally by students who walked out of Huntington Park High School and marched about seven miles to the board meeting in downtown. The students said the major shake-up would disrupt their education.
  • Feds to the Rescue?

    12/07/2010 6:08:34 AM PST · by Academiadotorg
    Accuracy in Academia ^ | December 7, 2010 | Malcolm A. Kline
    Professors still believe that the woes that afflict higher education can be solved through federal intervention. “Data should be collected on employment rates, salary information, and in acknowledgement that income is not a complete measure of a school’s return, alumni satisfaction rates,” Harvard’s Bridgett Terry Long writes in a December 2010 report published by the Center for American Progress (CAP). Most might agree on all of the above but Long wants the feds to do it. “The role of the federal government would be threefold,” Long writes in the CAP report, which is entitled “Grading Higher Education: Giving Consumers the...
  • Dropout U

    10/29/2010 11:08:35 AM PDT · by Academiadotorg · 4 replies
    Accuracy in Academia ^ | October 29, 2010 | Malcolm A. Kline
    The President’s favorite think tank, the Center for American Progress (CAP) is so anxious to help the White House reach its goal of 60 percent of the population with college degrees that they are considering high school dropouts as likely targets for recruiters. It should be noted that colleges are already trying to bring back their own dropouts to increase attendance at their institutions, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. U. S. Under Secretary of Education Martha Kanter enunciated the 60 percent benchmark at a recent CAP meeting. “Reaching a 60 percent attainment level is a challenging task, requiring...
  • Billion Dollar Dropout Riddle

    10/15/2010 10:51:12 AM PDT · by Academiadotorg · 10 replies
    Accuracy in Academia ^ | October 15, 2010 | Malcolm A. Kline
    Researchers are scratching their heads over the massive number of college dropouts. “During a five-year period, more than $9 billion was spent by state and federal governments to support students at four-year colleges and universities who left school before their sophomore year,” according to the American Institutes for Research (AIR). “California, Texas and New York led the nation in government spending on students who dropped out before their second year.” “Every fall, first-year college students receive significant funding from colleges, states and the federal government,” said Dr. Mark Schneider, an AIR vice president. “And every spring, hundreds of thousands of...
  • If Schools Were Like 'American Idol' . . .

    10/08/2010 1:24:41 PM PDT · by iowamark · 15 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | 10/08/2010 | Rupert Murdoch
    Unless we measure success by how children perform, we'll have higher standards for pop stars than public schools. Over the past few years, I have often complained about a hidebound culture that prevents many newspapers from responding to the challenges of new technology. There is, however, another hidebound American institution that is also finding it difficult to respond to new challenges: our big-city schools. Today, for example, the United States is home to more than 2,000 dysfunctional high schools. They represent less than 15% of American high schools yet account for about half of our dropouts. When you break this...
  • Dropouts rise in gov't loan modification program

    05/17/2010 9:29:49 PM PDT · by Nachum · 12 replies · 524+ views
    ap ^ | 5/17/10 | ALAN ZIBEL
    WASHINGTON — The number of homeowners dropping out of the Obama administration's main mortgage assistance plan is growing, and is now almost equal to the number who have received permanent relief. The Treasury Department's report on Monday was the latest evidence of problems in the administration's $75 billion program. While officials insist the program is helping the housing market turn around, critics say it is merely delaying an inevitable surge in foreclosures. More than 299,000 homeowners had received permanent loan modifications as of last month, Treasury said. That's about 25 percent of the 1.2 million who started the program since...
  • Schools 'push teen mothers to be dropouts'

    03/15/2010 4:03:15 PM PDT · by Niuhuru · 24 replies · 373+ views
    The Observer ^ | Sunday 14 March 2010 | Tracy McVeigh
    Teenage mothers are being thrown on the career scrap heap because they face so many barriers in getting back into school, the children's charity Barnardo's says. Young women are often left out of school on "spurious health and safety grounds" and feel pressured by their schools not to come back after having had a baby, says the charity.
  • Obama seeks money, interventions to stem dropouts

    03/01/2010 8:39:41 AM PST · by reaganaut1 · 50 replies · 840+ views
    Associated Press ^ | March 1, 2010 | Darlene Superville
    President Barack Obama took aim Monday at the nation's school dropout epidemic, proposing $900 million to states and education districts that agree to drastically change or even shutter their worst performing schools. Obama's move comes as many schools continue to struggle to get children to graduation, a profound problem in a rich, powerful nation. Only about 70 percent of entering high school freshmen go on to graduate. The problem affects blacks and Latinos at particularly high rates. Obama described the crisis as one that hurts individual kids and the nation as a whole, shattering dreams and undermining an already hurting...
  • CA: More than a quarter of 7th graders drop out (drop-outs outnumber grads in a major community)

    04/10/2009 8:48:43 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 24 replies · 821+ views
    Sac Bee ^ | 4/10/09 | Capitol Alert
    More than a quarter of California youngsters attending seventh grade classes in 2001-02 failed to graduate from high school in 2007, and in one major community dropouts outnumbered graduates, according to a new statistical study by the California Dropout Research Project, .. The state's 480,595 seventh-graders had shrunken to 356,641 high school graduates, the UCSB researchers found. .. The project asserts that California will see $24.2 billion in economic losses, both lower wages and higher government and crime costs, from that one class's dropouts and will also experience some 28,000 more violent crimes.
  • Discipline of Military Redirects Dropouts

    03/08/2009 5:51:06 AM PDT · by Amelia · 16 replies · 744+ views
    The New York Times ^ | March 7, 2009 | ERIK ECKHOLM
    FORT GORDON, Ga. — By his own account, Donte’ A. Dungey had no motivation in high school, sleeping through classes and sometimes showing up only for the free lunch to reduce the burden on his mother, who was struggling with nine other children. Held back three times and scheduled to enter the 10th grade at nearly 18, he knew that “high school just wasn’t going to work for me,” he said. But he was also ready to change. More than five months ago, Mr. Dungey took up residence in a program for dropouts called Youth Challenge, run by the National...
  • Army Picks up Slack for our Failed, Union-Dominated Education System

    08/29/2008 1:59:57 PM PDT · by foutsc · 22 replies · 203+ views
    Nietzsche is Dead ^ | 29 Aug 08 | foutsc
    This is why the Defense Department, and the US Army especially, is the most successful government institution in the US.Facing a decreasing pool of eligible recruits, the Army has started a learning program for dropouts to get up to speed before going to basic training. Hey, all you crabby leftists with smug bumper stickers wishing the DoD would have to hold bake sales to purchase their weapons take note: This is America's war machine picking up the education system's slack. Yeah, our teachers union dominated schools are failing, but don't worry, as usual, the Army's got our backs.What other government...
  • Los Angeles Is a Third World City

    04/26/2008 9:17:42 AM PDT · by T.L.Sink · 70 replies · 609+ views
    The Telegraph ^ | April 24, '08 | staff
    A third of immigrants have not graduated from high school and 60 percent do not speak English fluently, the Migration Policy Institute found. These immigrants make up half the Los Angeles workforce. It said this left immigrants ill-equipped to fill California's fastest-growing occupations. The organization said that as the so-called baby boomers reach retirement age, a similar pattern will spread across the U.S. Ernesto Cortes, of the Industrial Area Foundation, a think-tank that specializes on social change said "The question is are we going to be a 21st century city or a Third World city with an elite group on...
  • High School Dropout Rate

    04/14/2008 9:22:51 AM PDT · by New Jersey Realist · 40 replies · 162+ views
    The Patriot Post | 4/14/2008 | Suzanne Fields
    “It’s a lot later than we think. We’re raising an illiterate and uneducated generation, and there’s more to come. On April 1, America’s Promise Alliance released a detailed study revealing that fewer than half of the teenagers in 17 of the largest U.S. cities drop out of high school before they graduate—more than 1.2 million of them. The cost of this is enormous: billions of dollars in lost productivity for expensive social services and (because ignorance begets crime) to build more prisons. This report sounded like an April Fool’s joke on the growing number of fools, meaning all of us....
  • Rosie O'Donnell Admits to Dropping Out of College with Low Grades [A 1.62. That’s a D minus....]

    04/08/2008 10:32:09 AM PDT · by Sub-Driver · 66 replies · 93+ views
    Rosie O'Donnell Admits to Dropping Out of College with Low Grades Photo of Justin McCarthy. By Justin McCarthy | April 8, 2008 - 13:09 ET Rosie O’Donnell, who once said it is "physically impossible" for fire to melt steel, shockingly revealed she did not make it through college. Promoting her new book "Crafty U" on the April 8 edition of "Martha," Rosie admitted she was not able to get through a real university. Rosie also recounted bitter memories from "The View." Fawning over Martha Stewart’s intellect, Rosie implied she does not match up as she confessed to dropping out of...
  • Report: Low grad rates in US cities

    03/31/2008 9:57:39 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 15 replies · 400+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 3/31/08 | Ken Thomas - ap
    WASHINGTON - Seventeen of the nation's 50 largest cities had high school graduation rates lower than 50 percent, with the lowest graduation rates reported in Detroit, Indianapolis and Cleveland, according to a report released Tuesday. The report, issued by America's Promise Alliance, found that about half of the students served by public school systems in the nation's largest cities receive diplomas. Students in suburban and rural public high schools were more likely to graduate than their counterparts in urban public high schools, the researchers said. Nationally, about 70 percent of U.S. students graduate on time with a regular diploma and...