Deciphering Dueling Stats on Graduation Rates
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It sounded like a story guaranteed to irritate taxpayers: a national study out of Rutgers university says more and more public high school students are taking longer than four years to graduate. Instead, they’re in school for five or six — or more —Â years! But Florida school officials say that’s not a problem here. […]