Tennessee Education Continues To Improve
High school graduation rate makes largest gain in nation
Civic Enterprises, a public policy firm based in Washington D.C., this week announced that Tennessee schools have made the largest gains in the entire nation with regard to high school graduation rates.
Between 2002 and 2010, the statewide high school graduation rate rose over 20 percentage points to an overall rate of 80.4%. Over the last four years, Tennessee has made its largest gains, averaging a 2.45% increase per year.
Thanks to a commitment by Governor Bill Haslam and the Republican-led state legislature to focus resources on training Tennessee students to meet the demands of the 21st Century job market, Tennessee has now become one of eighteen states that are poised to achieve the national goal of a 90% overall graduation rate by 2020.
For more information on this study, visit http://www.civicenterprises.net and click on the ‘Building a Grad Nation 2013 Annual Report’ link.
