What's Behind the Falling Latino Dropout Rates?
What's Behind the Falling Latino Dropout Rates?
- The Hispanic dropout rate, 14 percent, is the lowest it’s been in three decades and has been cut in half since 2000. About a fourth of the people who took the GED test in 2013 were Latino, the largest share since 2003. The graduation rate for Hispanics, different than the dropout rate, was up to 76 percent to 2012, a 15 percentage point increase from 2006.
- The Hispanic dropout rate, 14 percent, is the lowest it’s been in three decades and has been cut in half since 2000. About a fourth of the people who took the GED test in 2013 were Latino, the largest share since 2003. The graduation rate for Hispanics, different than the dropout rate, was up to 76 percent to 2012, a 15 percentage point increase from 2006.
