RELATED LINKS
(1) U.S. Government Accountability Office 2008 report on Disconnected Youth
(2) Ibid
(3) 12 pct. of schools are ‘dropout factories,’ study says,” reported on 10/30/2007; St. Louis Post-Dispatch
(4) With the exception of the dropout rates, which are taken from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in an article entitled, “St. Louis dropout rate skyrockets; Missouri’s holds steady.” Reported on 12/09/08.
(5) According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, in 2005-2006 five out of 83 high schools in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area had graduation rates below 60% and all five were located in the City of St. Louis. Those high schools and graduation rates are as follows: Beaumont (37.8%); Sumner (48.7%); Roosevelt (48.2%); Vashon (49.4%); Meda P. Washington (30.2%); taken from “12 pct. of schools are ‘dropout factories,’ study says,” reported on 10/30/2007.
(6) Alliance for Excellent Education (2007). “The high cost of high school dropouts: What the nation pays for inadequate schools.”
(7) Milliken, B. (2007). The last dropout: Stop the epidemic. Communities in School, Inc.: Carlsbad, CA.
(8) Ayres-Salamon. (2006). A recipe for failure: A year of reform and chaos in the St. Louis Public Schools. Victoria, BC, Canada: Trafford Publishing.
(9) As cited by the St. Louis Post Dispatch in the article “Can! Academies Can’t make a go of it here, State board is expected to close failing charter school,” reported on 5/22/2008
(10) As cited by the St. Louis Post Dispatch in the article “Building solid future gets tougher without funds,” reported on 6/12/2008