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PROPOSAL : `DO SCHOOL BUDGETS IMPACT DROPOUT RATES ? `

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Each year , nearly 30 percent of all public high school undergraduates- and approximately 50 percent of all blacks , Hispanics and Native Americans - do not succeed in graduating from public high schools among their class . A lot of these students dropout from school with less than two years remaining for completion of their high school learning program . In 1997 , the dropout rate for students aging from 16 to 24

br years was recorded at 11 percent , signifying a minor reduction as compared to the 1990 figures (Reyes , 2006 ) The dropout rate for white students was found to be lesser than the figures for Hispanic and black students . For instance , in 1997 , an 8 percent the dropout rate was recorded for white , non-Hispanic students while figures for black students and Hispanic students stood at 13 percent and 25 percent respectively (Jimerson , 2007

The consequences of this problem are unfavorable for mostly students However , it has adverse effects on teachers , schools and the economy as a whole . A steadily increasing dropout rate across the nation amplifies the threat to the states ' potency and prosperity . Various studies reveal a constant raise in the number of students who fail to graduate , and authorities are disturbed by those figures , as it would signify increasing costs for social programs and prisons , along with bad debt and decreased tax revenues owing to the abridged earnings competency of dropouts...