What Your Community Can Do to End its Dropout Crisis

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 Many communities in the United States face a silent epidemic-year after year, one third to half or more of the primarily low-income and minority students they educate in their public school systems fail to graduate from high school (www.civicenterprises.net) Decades ago, this would not have been a crisis. Factory jobs provided an avenue for employment and upward mobility for young adults without high school degrees. Today, the unemployment rate for young adults without a high school diploma is staggering. As a result, failure to graduate from high school has become a ticket to the underclass. For a single individual this can be tragic, but when the majority or near majority of students from entire neighborhoods and communities fail to graduate, the social and economic costs are profound and far reaching.

 Many communities in the United States face a silent epidemic-year after year, one third to half or more of the primarily low-income and minority students they educate in their public school systems fail to graduate from high school (www.civicenterprises.net) Decades ago, this would not have been a crisis. Factory jobs provided an avenue for employment and upward mobility for young adults without high school degrees. Today, the unemployment rate for young adults without a high school diploma is staggering. As a result, failure to graduate from high school has become a ticket to the underclass. For a single individual this can be tragic, but when the majority or near majority of students from entire neighborhoods and communities fail to graduate, the social and economic costs are profound and far reaching.

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