{"id":21906,"date":"2014-04-28T12:19:09","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T16:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=21906"},"modified":"2014-04-29T09:42:24","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T13:42:24","slug":"how-floridas-graduation-rates-compares-t-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2014\/04\/28\/how-floridas-graduation-rates-compares-t-the-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"How Florida’s Graduation Rates Compare To The Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida’s graduation rate increased by five percentage points between the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 school years, according to new U.S. Department of Education graduation rate data released today.<\/a> But despite the improving rate, just six states and the District of Columbia have a lower graduation rate than Florida —the same number as last year. <\/a><\/p>\n

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The bright spots? Florida’s graduation rates for Hispanic students and English language learners are near the national average. Just eight states have a lower dropout rate than Florida, at 2.1 percent. The national dropout rate is 3.3 percent.<\/p>\n

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Florida’s graduation rates in many categories are comparable to another large, diverse state, California, but trail Texas.<\/p>\n

Supporters of Florida’s education policies argue the state sets more difficult graduation requirements than other states<\/a>. Students who started 9th grade this year can now choose from three high school diploma tracks<\/a>, after lawmakers changed the requirements last year.<\/p>\n

The national graduation rate hit an all-time high of 80 percent, and at the current rate of improvement would top 90 percent by 2020<\/a>. Iowa’s graduation rate of 89 percent led the nation.<\/p>\n

The chart above is based on four-year adjusted cohort graduation rate, a new, more standardized measure which allow for better state-to-state comparisons. Idaho, Kentucky and Oklahoma are not included in the graduation rate data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Florida’s graduation rate increased by five percentage points between the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 school years, according to new U.S. Department of Education graduation rate data released today. But despite the improving rate, just six states and the District of Columbia have a lower graduation rate than Florida —the same number as last year. The bright […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[616,726,156,1091,670],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21906"}],"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=21906"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21909,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21906\/revisions\/21909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}