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    Helping the Homeless and Resisting Preschool: This Week's Top 7 Education Stories

    The best recent writing about school
    by Hayley Glatter Mar 17, 2017 3 minutes
    Source: Gary Cameron / Reuters

    Is Florida Underreporting Dropouts?

    Heather Vogell | ProPublica

    Florida’s Department of Education is expanding an inquiry into how schools classify students who leave without graduating, in response to a ProPublica report that the state may have thousands more dropouts than it acknowledges.

    Also in reaction to the article, the school-board chairman in Orlando is asking the district superintendent for a formal report regarding concerns that low-achieving students have been pressured to transfer

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