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Solving the Dropout Crisis: Liz Lieberman

Liz Lieberman is a career coach and founder of Talk About Your Future, Inc., a non-profit organization focused on helping teens get on a meaningful career path. She recently spoke at the American Graduate Community Forum in Atlanta. Liz says we should help kids follow their dreams. She thinks we must deal with anger issues by helping teens develop a strategy for communitcating.  Liz feels strongly that we should focus more on learning and less on testing. She says that what's most important is not how teens treat adults, it's how they treat each other that really counts. If students had each other's back, there would be far fewer students dropping out of school.

Solving the Dropout Crisis: Raynard Johnson

Raynard Johnson is an Atlanta Community Activist. He recently spoke at the American Graduate Community Forum in Atlanta. He says that we need more disipline in schools. Raynard wants community members to address the kids they see on the streets during school hours and and find out why they are not in school.  He would like every child who graduates to be work ready and he wants companies who take commuinty funds to get tax breaks for hiring our kids.

Atlanta Public School's High School Graduation Rate at 50.87%

The Georgia Department of Education 2012 data that shows that the Atlanta Public School Graduation rate has dropped to 50.87%, down from 51.96 in 2011.

The States press release says that, "The four-year adjusted cohort graduation rate defines the cohort based on when a student first becomes a freshman. The rate is calculated using the number of students who graduate within four years and includes adjustments for student transfers."

Geogia's public high school graduation rate rose more than two percentage points over the previous year – from 67.4 percent in 2011 to 69.7 percent in 2012.

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