With the nation in the midst of a dropout crisis that costs more than $335 billion in lost wages for each class of dropouts, a brief from the Alliance for Excellent Education calls on federal policymakers to perform “legislative triage” by devoting attention to the lowest-performing high schools and immediately improving or replacing the most severely “injured” schools.
The brief, Prioritizing the Nation’s Dropout Factories: The Need for Federal Policy That Targets the Lowest-Performing High Schools, includes a state-by-state breakdown of dropout factories and the percent of high schools students who attend them.