Dropout Prevention Forum

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Staying in School, Preparing for Life: Prevention in North Carolina 's Rural Communities is a Rural Roundtable discussion with state leaders on dropout prevention. On Friday, June 6, 2008 8:45 a.m. to Noon, find out what North Carolinians can do at the community and state levels to confront this crisis and help our children stay in school and succeed. For every 100 students entering ninth grade in North Carolina , only 70 graduate four years later. That means 30 lack what state Board of Education Chairman Howard Lee calls "the bare minimum for economic survival." Rural communities, whose resources are already stretched thin, need creative, practical strategies to help students reach their potential and survive in the global economy.

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