{"id":16181,"date":"2013-01-22T11:30:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T16:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=16181"},"modified":"2013-12-11T14:59:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T19:59:48","slug":"florida-graduation-rate-improving-still-among-the-nations-lowest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/01\/22\/florida-graduation-rate-improving-still-among-the-nations-lowest\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Graduation Rate Improving, Still Among The Nation&#8217;s Lowest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16192\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 199px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/01\/22\/florida-graduation-rate-improving-still-among-the-nations-lowest\/1-22-uparrow\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16192\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16192\" title=\"1-22 UpArrow\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/01\/1-22-UpArrow-199x300.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/01\/1-22-UpArrow-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/01\/1-22-UpArrow.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">grismarengo2 \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">New federal data shows Florida&#39;s graduation rate is improving, but the state&#39;s national ranking has changed little since 2001-2002.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Florida&#8217;s graduation rate is increasing but the state still ranks among the nation&#8217;s lowest, according to new federal data.<\/p>\n<p>Just six states and the District of Columbia had a lower graduation rate than Florida&#8217;s 70.8 percent, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/documents\/press-releases\/state-2010-11-graduation-rate-data.pdf\">National Center for Education Statistics for the 2010-2011 school year.<\/a> In the 2001-2002 school year, just five states and the District of Columbia had a lower graduation rate than Florida.<\/p>\n<p>However, Florida&#8217;s graduation rate has risen to 70.8 percent in the 2010-2011 school year from 63.4 percent in the 2001-2002 school year &#8212; a 7.4 percentage point increase. During the same period, the national rate increased to 78.2 percent from 72.6 percent &#8212; a 5.6 percentage point increase.<\/p>\n<p>These figures use an older method for calculating graduation rates. The federal government has <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/documents\/press-releases\/state-2010-11-graduation-rate-data.pdf\">required states to use a new, standardized method<\/a>. Those figures allow for a better comparison among individual state graduation rates.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Florida also <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/11\/27\/florida-among-states-with-lowest-high-school-graduation-rates\/\">ranked among the bottom 20 percent of states<\/a> using the new calculation. The new federal data shows the graduation rate <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/11\/27\/inside-floridas-graduation-rate-comparing-student-groups\/\">gap between Florida&#8217;s white and Hispanic students is less than in other states<\/a>, but students with disabilities graduate at a lower rate in Florida than other states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida&#8217;s graduation rate is increasing but the state still ranks among the nation&#8217;s lowest, according to new federal data. Just six states and the District of Columbia had a lower graduation rate than Florida&#8217;s 70.8 percent, according to the National Center for Education Statistics for the 2010-2011 school year. In the 2001-2002 school year, just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":16192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[193,205],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16181"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20929,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16181\/revisions\/20929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}