The Road to a 90 Percent Graduation Rate: A Proud and Sobering Moment

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The Road to a 90 Percent Graduation Rate: A Proud and Sobering Moment

Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Education announced that the national high school graduation rate stands at a record high, up from 81.4 percent in 2013 to 82.3 percent for 2014. Four organizations leading the GradNation campaign to raise the high school graduation rate to 90 percent by 2020 – the Alliance for Excellent Education, America’s Promise Alliance, Civic Enterprises and the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Education – have issued the following press statement.