Gov. Abbott and his predecessor Rick Perry have long rallied around their work on education and touted Texas’ high school graduation rate. Here are the facts.
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ranking four Texas high schools among the top 50 STEM high schools, and the Texas public high school graduation rate.Discussion Of the students who started ninth grade in 2016-17, scheduled to graduate in 2020, 90.3 percent graduated within four years, . This percentage is called the four-year longitudinal graduation rate, because it measures how much of a starting ninth gradeThe remaining 10 percent might have continued school, received a high school equivalency certificate, or dropped out. Abbott’s statistic checks out.
Some demographic groups have better graduation rates than others. Economically disadvantaged students graduated 6 percentage points lower than those who were not . Compared with state averages, there were lower graduation rates and higher dropout rates for students in special education programs and students identified as learning English as a second language.PolitiFact is a fact-checking project to help you sort out fact from fiction in politics.
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