High school graduation rates remain low despite Louisiana state officials’ efforts to improve education and students retention.
Within the next 10 years, the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education predicts the graduation rate to fall almost 15 percent.
A decline in Louisiana’s birth rates and the devastion caused by Hurricane Katrina are two of the main factors for the decreasing rate.
Read Garesia Randle’s article in tomorrow’s print edition of The Daily Reveille to find out how this could affect the University and what administrators plan to do about the problem.