{"id":20924,"date":"2013-12-11T13:56:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T18:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=20924"},"modified":"2013-12-11T13:56:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T18:56:31","slug":"florida-high-school-graduation-rates-continue-to-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/12\/11\/florida-high-school-graduation-rates-continue-to-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida High School Graduation Rates Continue to Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20925\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Florida's graduation rate has risen for the seventh consecutive year.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/12\/12-11-NumberSeven.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20925\" alt=\"Florida's graduation rate has risen for the seventh consecutive year.\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/12\/12-11-NumberSeven-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/12\/12-11-NumberSeven-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/12\/12-11-NumberSeven.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Kentigern \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Florida&#39;s graduation rate has risen for the seventh consecutive year.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Florida&#8217;s high school graduation rate increased for the seventh consecutive year, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fldoe.org\/eias\/eiaspubs\/pubstudent.asp\">new data from the Florida Department of Education<\/a>. The percentage of students earning a high school diploma increased to 75.6 percent during the 2012-2013 school year, up from 74.5 percent the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>Graduation rates improved for every racial subgroup, except Asian-Americans, whose rate remained the highest at 88.4 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Nassau County schools posted the state&#8217;s highest graduation rate at 90.9 percent. Among the state&#8217;s largest school districts in Broward County, Jacksonville, Miami, Orlando, Palm Beach County and Tampa, Miami-Dade schools posted the best graduation rate of 77.2 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Despite recent improvement, <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/01\/22\/florida-graduation-rate-improving-still-among-the-nations-lowest\/\">just six states and the District of Columbia had a lower graduation rate than Florida<\/a>, according to the most recent federal data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida&#8217;s high school graduation rate increased for the seventh consecutive year, according to new data from the Florida Department of Education. The percentage of students earning a high school diploma increased to 75.6 percent during the 2012-2013 school year, up from 74.5 percent the previous year. Graduation rates improved for every racial subgroup, except Asian-Americans, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1168,205,1041],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20924"}],"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=20924"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20927,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20924\/revisions\/20927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}