No matter how it’s computed, Georgia’s graduation rate is abysmal. The U.S. Department of Education last week released for the first time a comparison of all the states based on a uniform method of calculating graduation rates. The numbers show Georgia with a graduation rate of 67 percent for the 2010-11 school year, meaning that roughly one student out of three failed to make it out of high school in four years with a diploma.
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