I don't know what they do, but the DOE stats prove me out.
By the way, that's not all rural schoolchildren, that's just AL, GA, MS, and LA.
All you have to do to prove that is drive into the backwoods bayou country of Louisiana.... [shudder]
I see. Last time I drove through AL and GA, they all spoke English, last time I drove south of San Antonio I thought I was in Nuevo Laredo. And the drop out rate for Hispanics is around 46%.
Well, us illiterates here in GA say that the best thing that comes out of AL is I-20 !