what i m asking you today to do is to give our children justice. the blighting of the urban core is scandalous and shameful. now, officials blame city shrinkage and students fleeing the urban public school system for other schools, whether it s charter schools, private schools, parochial schools or just public schools in the suburbs. in detroit, another shrinking city, 29 schools were closed before the school year even began with 40 more potentially on the chopping block. detroit has one of the highest high school dropout rates in our country. educational leaders say there s sweeping reform agenda based on accountability. it is a buzz word also invoked by our enppt in response to the firings of an entire school of teachers in rhode island. if a school continues to fail its students year after year after year, that doesn t show
Field, and our students can do very, very well going forward. mike barnicle. okay, mr. secretary, i m not going to ask you about harvard basketball today. thank god. but i am going to ask you to stick with the points that you just raised in terms of early childhood education. we talk a lot about high school dropout rates with the truancy rate leading up to high school just predicts the doctropout ra. what are you going to be able to do about young people coming out of college who want desperately to go and teach like in the toughest schools, inner-city schools, and they can t do it because of union restrictions or union roadblocks? what are you going to do about getting more people in k-2, k-3 to help rescue these kids? i ve even expand it and say pre-k through 12. right now, due to the tough local budgets, it s a tough time in terms of hiring. but as we look out four, five, six years, we anticipate as many as 1 million teachers retiring. the baby boomer generation moving tow
Being transparent and transformative. we are intentional about addressing the plight of the african-american male in this country. how we re going to come together to stem the tide of the incarceration rate and increase the ma trikculation rate in institutions of higher learning. you re talking about incarceration. you re talking about drug abuse, unemployme unemployment, high school dropout rates. what influence can the church have in dealing with these issues? what exactly can the church do better in trying to stem these numbers? well, the church speaks with the voice of authority that no other sector of society has. we stand on a historic principles not just based on our institutional histories but that predates us rooted firmly into our religious faith based on the principles of jesus christ. i think we instill in young african-american males and all
And that pool is estimated to grow another 9% by 2017. there is some good news about handling this growing number, though, for kindergarten through 12th braid the average public school teacher abouts salary is now a respectable $51,000. overall ratio of teacher to pupils of one to 16. the bad news we have one of the highest high school dropout rates of any industrialized nation. why after years of people thinking about how to keep kids in school do we have the drop yachdropout rates? the country has been slow to look into the marketplace and the economy. our dropout rate approaches 30% nationally. we lose about 1.2 million students each year to the streets. it is a staggering number. so me that is economically unsustainable and moral ally
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