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Policies & Procedures

• Last year in Georgia, more than 2000 students dropped out before entering the 9th grade.

• Graduation Rates
  • United States = 74.4% (NCES - 2006-2007)
  • Georgia = 71.7% (GA DOE 2006-2007)
  • Franklin County = 58.3%

• The younger generations are producing fewer college graduates in a time when America needs a MORE educated population in order to compete globally in the information/digital age...

• China's plan today is to educate 15-20% of their population...they have 1.3 billion people, therefore, they will have more college graduates than we have people in the United States! (GA DOE 2006)

• We need to start saying...
  • "Finish your homework!  People in China are starving for your job!"

  • "Fortune favors the prepared mind." - Louis Pasteur

  • Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.  It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.  Every morning a lion wakes up.  It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.  It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle.  When the sun comes up, you better start running.  (GA DOE 2006)

• On average a high school drop-out will be rejected for 94 out of 100 jobs.

• High school dropouts cost the nation about $944 billion in lost revenue while increasing welfare and crime-related spending by $24 billion.

• 82% of prison inmates do not have a high school diploma.  In 1996, the national average cost of prisons was $20,142 per prisoner in federal prisons and $23,500 in state prisons.

• America holds 110,284 in juvenile facilities (Butterfield, 2003).

• Every dollar put into primary and secondary education produces a $3.40 to $7.40 return (New Mexico Roundtable for Educational Excellence).