Reply #32: Half of Florida's high schools are dropout factories

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http://www2.tbo.com/content/2007/oct/31/311039/analysis-half-flas-high-schools-dropout-factories/
The Associated Press
Published: October 31, 2007

The state's percentage of dropout factories, 51.1 percent, was the second-highest in the nation, slightly less than South Carolina's, according to the analysis conducted by Johns Hopkins University for The Associated Press.

The term dropout factory, coined by Hopkins researcher Bob Balfanz, describes schools where no more than 60 percent of the students who start as freshmen make it to their senior year.