A new report is sounding alarm bells about lagging high
school graduation rates among students with disabilities.
Some 85 to 90 percent of kids with disabilities are
estimated to be capable of completing the requirements for a high school
diploma. Yet, just 6 in 10 of these students graduated in 2013, the most recent
year for which figures are available.
The findings come from an analysis of federal education
data in the annual Grad Nation report released Tuesday, which is produced by
the Alliance for Excellent Education, America’s Promise Alliance, Civic
Enterprises and the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University.
With the overall graduation rate for American students at
its highest ever — reaching 81.4 percent in 2013 — the report finds that some
students are struggling to keep pace.
“While progress is substantial in many areas of the
country, the number of non-graduates remains disturbingly high for students of
color, students from low-income families and young people with disabilities,”
wrote Gen. Colin Powell and his wife, Alma Powell, in a letter released as part
of the report which their group, America’s Promise Alliance, helped produce.
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