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Report: US makes modest gains in graduation rate BY KIMBERLY HEFLING AP Education Writer
HAGERSTOWN, Md. — The last straw for 17-yearold Alton Burke was a note left on his door. The high school dropout picked up the phone and re-enrolled at South Hagerstown High. Burke missed roughly 200 days of class, but Heather Dixon, the student intervention specialist who left the note, never gave up on him. Aggressive efforts to prevent students such as Burke from dropping out contributed to a modest 3.5 percentage point increase nationally in the high school graduation rate from 2001 to 2009, according to research presented Monday at the Grad Nation summit in Washington. The event was organized by the children’s advocacy group America’s Promise Alliance founded by former Secretary of State Colin Powell. The graduation rate was 75 percent in 2009, meaning 1 in 4 students fails to get a diploma in four years, researchers found. That’s well below the organization’s goal of 90 percent by 2020. Researchers found that the number of “dropout factories,” schools that fail to graduate more than 60 percent of students on time, had dropped by more than 450 between 2002 and 2010, but that
Online ■ America’s Promise Alliance: http://www.americaspromise.org/ ■ Civic Enterprises: http://www.civicenterprises. net/ ■ Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University: www.every1graduates.org . ■ Alliance for Excellent Education: http://www. all4ed.org
1,550 remain. The largest declines in dropout factories were in the South and in suburban communities. “Big gains are possible if you work hard at it, and if you don’t focus on it, you’re going to go backward,” said Robert Balfanz, a report author and director of the Everyone Graduates Center at the School of Education at Johns Hopkins University. The increase in graduation rates was primarily because of growth in 12 states, with New York and Tennessee showing double digit gains since 2002, according to the research. At the other end, 10 states had declines: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, New Jersey, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, Rhode Island and Utah. So far, only Wisconsin has met the 90 percent benchmark, although Vermont is close. “This year’s report proves struggling schools are not destined to fail,” said Education Secretary Arne Duncan. “The reality is that even one dropout
factory is too many.” The authors said there are proven strategies to tackle the problem, such as getting all students to read at grade level, raising the compulsory school attendance age to 18 and developing “early warning” systems to help identify students that might be at risk of later dropping out. In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama encouraged states to pass laws to require students to stay in school until they graduate or they turn 18. It’s estimated that high school graduates will earn $130,000 more over their lifetimes than dropouts, and that high school graduates will generate more than $200,000 in higher tax revenues and savings in government expenditures over their lifetime, the report said. And, the report said that if the 90 percent goal had already been met, 580,000 more students would have graduated last year, generating $1.8 billion in additional revenue because of increased economic activity.
dividends for years. He used to say the money was better used to give Apple maneuvering room to, for instance, make strategic acquisitions. Apple paid a quarterly dividend between 1987 and 1995, a period when Jobs was not involved with the company. Jobs died in October after a long fight with cancer. On Monday, new CEO Tim Cook said that, with as much cash as Apple has on hand, a dividend won’t restrain the company’s options. “These decisions will not close any doors for us,” he told analysts and reporters on a conference call. Had it kept amassing cash and low-yielding securities, Apple eventually could have opened itself to a legal challenge from shareholders, who could have argued that it was misusing their money. Cook also suggested that the dividend could have been larger if U.S. tax laws were different. Apple said that it will pay a quarterly dividend of $2.65 per share, starting in its fiscal fourth quarter, which be-
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Nation Briefs Associated Press
GOP voters’ passion uneven for Mitt, Rick WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney may lead in delegates and Rick Santorum might have momentum, but neither of the two leading Republican presidential candidates is having an easy time exciting even his own voters. Out of a dozen states where voters in the GOP contest have been polled, most Romney voters have said they strongly favor him in just five of them. A majority of Santorum voters felt that committed to him only four times out of 11 states where he was on the ballot and voters were surveyed. Consider that Arizona is the only state where Romney had a higher proportion of voters expressing strong feelings about him than his rivals did. And Santorum hasn’t had that edge in any state yet, despite an animated campaign style and passion for hot-button social issues like contraception that have contrasted with Romney’s stiffer, more
analytic manner. On average, 50 percent of Romney voters and 49 percent of Santorum’s say they strongly favor their candidate, with the rest expressing reservations about their man or a greater dislike for his rivals, according to polls of voters in 12 states.
Boy, 9, summoned for jury duty service YARMOUTH, Mass. — Like many people who get summoned to jury duty, Jacob Clark didn’t want to go. But unlike most people, he had a legitimate excuse — he’s 9 years old. “I was like, ‘What’s a jury duty?”’ Jacob told the Cape Cod Times in response to his summons to appear in Orleans District Court in Massachusetts on April 18. His grandmother told him it was a good excuse to miss a day of school. His dad called the jury commission office to find out what happened. It turns out that someone apparently had typed 1982 for the Yarmouth
third-grader’s birth year instead of 2002. The mistake was quickly corrected.
Missing balloon pilot’s body found ATLANTA — A hot-air balloon pilot found a safe spot for his skydiving passengers to bail out just before a thunderstorm sucked in his craft and sent him plummeting to his death. Searchers found the body of 63-year-old Edward Ristaino on Monday after combing the woods in south Georgia with helicopters, airplanes, horses and all-terrain vehicles. Ben Hill County Sheriff Bobby McLemore said a helicopter spotted the balloon, and searchers on the ground then found the North Carolina resident dead. Ristaino was ferrying the five skydivers Friday night when the fastdeveloping storm struck. Two of the skydivers say Ristaino kept them safe by spotting a field where they could safely parachute and telling them to jump as the storm approached. “If we would have left
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a minute later, we would have been sucked into the storm,” said skydiver Dan Eaton of Augusta, Ga. He said he didn’t think Ristaino’s choice to embark on the trip was reckless. They took off into a blue sky from a festival in Fitzgerald, Ga. From the air, they could see only a fog-like haze that later turned into a fierce thunderstorm.
Apple pays dividend, starts stock buyback NEW YORK — Apple is finally acknowledging that it has more money than it needs. But don’t expect it to cut prices on iPhones and iPads. Instead, the company said on Monday that it will reward its shareholders with a dividend and a share buyback program. Apple, the world’s most valuable company, sits on $97.6 billion in cash and securities. The decision to return some of that money to investors is a clear signal that Apple is taking a different approach in the postJobs era. Former CEO Steve Jobs resisted calls to issue
Space station to get 1st commercial cargo CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The International Space Station should be getting its first commercial cargo shipment in May. Space Exploration Technologies Corp., better known as SpaceX, plans to launch its Dragon capsule from Cape Canaveral on April 30. The Dragon will take a few days to get to the space station. The launch was delayed from February for additional testing. It will be the first time a private company launches space station supplies. It will also be the first U.S. delivery since NASA’s space shuttles stopped flying last year. Unmanned cargo ships from Russia, Europe and Japan are filling the void. The billionaire founder of SpaceX, Elon Musk, wants to provide rides to the space station for American astronauts in the next few years. NASA astronauts currently are hitching rides on Russian vessels.
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