New graduation rate formula shakes up Georgia schools

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New graduation rate formula shakes up Georgia schools

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on Sunday that after an open records request, it was found that 30,751 students in the class of 2011 left high school without a diploma as opposed to the 15,590 that had originally been reported. ... Tucci, a senior research and policy associate at the Washington-based advocacy group Alliance for Excellent Education, stated, “it’s important that it gets out that these drops aren’t the result of a state doing worse. Now we have a more accurate picture.”