(AP) — A national magazine says Louisiana has improved its graduation rates.
Education Week released its annual Diploma Counts edition Tuesday examining the dropout issue.
Using its own formula, Education Week calculates that between 1996 and 2006, Louisiana’s high-school graduation rate improved by 7.8 percentage points, from 54 percent to 61.9 percent.
Louisiana has already calculated it had a slightly higher high-school graduation rate of 64.8 percent in 2006, and the state improved to 65.9 percent in 2007.
Unlike Education Week, which calculates year-by-year changes in enrollment using what it calls the Cumulative Promotion Index, the Louisiana Department of Education follows entire ninth-grade classes as cohorts, tracking them for four years.—-Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected]