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We are looking for ways to decrease the dropout rate. I am pretty sure, if we eliminate career and technical education, we are going to increase the dropout rate.

High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so.

I am particularly surprised that certain outlets look at pass rates irrespective of student population. As if inner city high school kids are to fare as well as college students.

I don't think we have a surplus of fine educators in this country that we can just start dropping them for no reason whatsoever.

If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years.

And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.

There are a lot of stats and a strong correlation between dropout rates and crime as well as poverty.

I don't think the schools are getting as much money as they should.

I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17.