Dan Patrick incorrectly says Texas has 40 percent to 50 percent dropout rates in inner-city schools

[TexasTowelie]

Houston state Sen. Dan Patrick, the Republican lieutenant governor nominee, vowed to reach out to all Texans in his general-election campaign.

Addressing his party’s June 2014 state convention, Patrick continued: "I’m going to go into Democratic strongholds and I’m going to tell them about school choice and educational opportunities, because we have a 40 to 50 percent dropout rate in our inner-city schools, and that cannot stand, for those families and for our state."

We wondered about those proclaimed dropout rates.

The numbers from Patrick, who chairs the Senate Education Committee, contrast sharply with those cited by the the Texas Education Agency, which reported a statewide high school dropout rate for the class of 2012 of 6.3 percent. (Austin’s high schools averaged a 3.7 percent dropout rate, topping out at LBJ High School’s 8.4 percent rate, according to the agency.) The state said nearly 88 percent of more than 316,000 seniors graduated in 2012, with another 5 percent staying in high school and 1 percent receiving GED certificates.

More at http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2014/jul/27/dan-patrick/dan-patrick-incorrectly-says-texas-has-40-percent-/ .

[House of Roberts]

1. He was just channeling Jon Kyl,

"It was not intended to be a factual statement.'

[randys1]

2. So he made up a statistic out of thin air? A republican? Nah

Let me help all of you with a simple lesson and let me assure you I learned this the hard way, real hard way

No republican or con or teabagger ever tells the truth...

[erpowers]

10. Conservative Statistics

He got his statistics from a Conservative(non-partisan) education think tank that counted students who transferred to private schools, or to school out of the state as dropouts. The state counts those groups and high school graduates.

[Gothmog]

3. Dan Patrick is both crazy and a liar

I really hope that Leticia wins against this idiot

[Dustlawyer]

6. Amen brother!

[Thinkingabout]

4. Facts are unimportant to folks like Dan Patrick. He says he is against immigration but liked to

hire the undocumented workers in his businesses and tried to assist them in obtaining the proper papers. He is part of the problem if he is hiring the undocumented workers, the 1986 Immigration bill called for fines against employers who hire the undocumented workers. There are so many problems with Dan Patrick, he does not respect one's choice of religion, he takes advantage of every government program which benefits himself, to say he does not tell the truth is a small problem with him. I live in his district, he does not care about the citizens in his district but does not mind cramming his issues down our throats. He needs to stay out of the decisions between women and their doctors.

[SamKnause]

5. Incorrectly, misspoke,........................

He lied.

She lied.

They lied.

Politicians lie.

Republican politicians lie purposefully to advance their agendas, their Theocratic Corporate agendas.

If a Republican is speaking, odds are he, she, or they are lying.

Democratic politicians lie as well.

I do not think the majority of Democratic politicians lie, many do, but not the majority.

I do think the Democratic politicians are lousy at their jobs.

I do think the majority of Republican politicians lie.

They rarely, if ever, correct their lies. (Zombie Lies) Bill Maher reference.

Both parties leave much to be desired !!!

Corporate, wimpy, deceitful, lying tools for the elites.

[n2doc]

7. It's not a lie. It's a prediction, if he's elected. n/t

[DhhD]

8. Doing the math, that means .6 percent are unaccounted for in 2012 Texas.

http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=16

http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2014391

http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/pub_dropouts.asp

[DhhD]

9. So he could say, there is great improvement because he lead the way for Charter Schools.

That would be a huge rise from a 60% dropout rate to a 3% dropout rate. What grandeur this would be. He is off the normal by great amplitude; probably in to an irrational state of thinking, in my opinion.

[malokvale77]

11. I think he meant that...

as a statement of his goals. Right?

We don't need no education, etc. Maybe he is a Pink Floyd fan.

I don't know TT. I'm finding it harder, with each passing day, to explain idiots.

I most certainly have lost all patience with them.

[DhhD]

12. Pink Floyd was removed from the England over those words in that song. If only we could

get rid of Dan Patrick. Go. Leticia!

[malokvale77]

13. If only

I am at the point of despair as far as Texas' near future goes.