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RICK PERRY’S DROPOUT FAILURES: RHETORIC"I am firmly committed to solving [the dropout] problem because every child matters."

(Rick Perry Speech, March 28, 2002, http://governor.state.tx.us/news/press-release/4286/) "When it comes to our children, we will make every effort to keep them on course to alifetime of success."

(Rick Perry Speech, October 10, 2002, http://governor.state.tx.us/news/press-release/4677/) RICK PERRY’S DROPOUT FAILURES: REALITYTexas’s overall graduation rate is among the lowest nationwide, and experts estimatethat every hour of every school day an astounding 93 students drop out of Texasschools.

(Academy of Medicine, Engineering & Science of Texas, http://tamest.org/education/) In the graduating classes of 2000 through 2008, about 3.2 million students wereenrolled in high school, but only about 2.1 million graduated or earned a GED on time.

(Bill White for Texas, http://www.billwhitefortexas.com/assets/dropouts_a.pdf) Rick Perry has failed to account for the real dropout rate by ignoring evidence thatindicates that as many as 30% of students who enter high school do not graduate infour years. 

(Houston Chronicle, April 7, 2010, http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6948676.html) “This governor has been in office for nine years, and yet we have a 30 percent dropoutrate,” Kay Bailey Hutchison said. “That's not success.”

(Houston Chronicle, Feb. 24, 2010, http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6884388.html)

BILL WHITE:

WENT DOOR TO DOOR, BROUGHT DROPOUTS BACK TO SCHOOL

Bill White and his wife Andrea helped start Expectation Graduation, a program designed

to cut high school dropout rates. White helped organize an annual "Reach Out to

Dropouts" walk, bringing together hundreds of community volunteers and educators to

knock on doors of the houses of young people who did not return to high school for the

fall semester. The program, initiated with eight high schools in Houston ISD five years

ago, was expanded to 24 school districts in the Houston area.

To date the efforts have brought back over 8,800 high school students in the Houston

area.

Similar programs have been initiated in Dallas, Forth Worth, San Antonio, Corpus

Christi and El Paso.(Expectation Graduation, http://www.expectationgraduation.org/) 

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