{"id":9086,"date":"2012-06-21T13:01:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T17:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=9086"},"modified":"2012-06-21T13:06:41","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T17:06:41","slug":"857-students-drop-out-of-high-school-every-hour-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/06\/21\/857-students-drop-out-of-high-school-every-hour-every-day\/","title":{"rendered":"857 Students Drop Out of High School Every Hour, Every Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegeboard.org\/\">College Board<\/a>\u00a0is stepping into the world of politics with its first political campaign,\u00a0<a title=\"Campaign\u2019s Web site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dontforgeted.org\/\">\u201cDon\u2019t Forget Ed!\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The board set up\u00a0857 empty school desks on the National Mall in Washington D.C., representing the 857 students that drop out of school every hour, according to the College Board.<\/p>\n<p>Its an effort to\u00a0urge presidential candidates to make education reform a priority on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan posted a picture of the display on Facebook.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9095\"  class=\"wp-caption module image center\" style=\"max-width: 620px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/06\/21\/857-students-drop-out-of-high-school-every-hour-every-day\/mall-desks\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9095\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9095\" title=\"mall desks\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/06\/mall-desks-e1340297240372-620x890.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"890\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/06\/mall-desks-e1340297240372-620x890.png 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/06\/mall-desks-e1340297240372-208x300.png 208w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/06\/mall-desks-e1340297240372.png 638w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\"> <\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan posted a picture on Facebook of himself on the National Mall during the College Board&#39;s display.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The College Board asked passersby to sign its petition.<\/p>\n<p>It said: \u201cIf you want my support, I need to hear more from you about how you plan to fix the problems with education. And not just the same old platitudes. I want to know that you have real, tangible solutions, and that once in office, you\u2019re ready to take serious action. I\u2019ll be watching your acceptance speech at your party\u2019s convention.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The statistics come from a 2007 report by Education Week.<\/p>\n<p>It reported 1.2 million students drop out every year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0College Board\u00a0is stepping into the world of politics with its first political campaign,\u00a0\u201cDon\u2019t Forget Ed!\u201d The board set up\u00a0857 empty school desks on the National Mall in Washington D.C., representing the 857 students that drop out of school every hour, according to the College Board. Its an effort to\u00a0urge presidential candidates to make education reform [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[1044,465,522],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9086"}],"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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9115,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9086\/revisions\/9115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}