Iowa View: Poverty Gap Grows; Iows Turns to Option for At-Risk Teenagers

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Iowa View: Poverty Gap Grows; Iows Turns to Option for At-Risk Teenagers

The good news in Iowa is that most of our young people are staying in school and we have one of the highest high school graduation rates in the nation ... The Alliance for Excellent Education estimates that cutting the number of dropouts in Iowa by half would lead to a $45 million increase in the gross state product and $3.8 million in increased annual state tax revenue.