Federal High School Graduation Rate Policies and the Impact on States: Alabama Report/Fact Sheet

Alliance Sheds Light on High School Graduation Rates Article

Almost 90 percent of the fastest-growing and highest-paying jobs require some postsecondary education, but one third of the nation’s students—about 1.2 million each year—do not even graduate from high school.

MEASURING WHAT MATTERS: Report Evaluates States’ Progress on Developing High-Quality Data Systems Article

In 2005, all fifty of the nation’s governors signed the National Governors Association (NGA) Graduation Counts Compact. As part of that commitment, they agreed to implement a common, accurate graduation rate and create better systems and methods of collecting, analyzing, and reporting graduation and dropout data