State’s graduation rates top national average
Arkansas’s public high school graduation rate is above the national average, according to Diplomas Count 2009, the fourth annual report issued by Washington-based Education Week that outlines high school graduation policies and trends. Arkansas’ graduation rate for 2006, the year for which the most recent data is available, was 71.9 percent, while the graduation rate for the nation was 69.2 percent.
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