NCES Report: Wisconsin Leads Nation In High-School Graduations

The Manitowoc (WI) Herald Times Reporter (6/13, Hodgson) reports that according to a new National Center for Education Statistics report, "Wisconsin has one of the highest graduation rates in the country - the highest, according to one method of calculation." The report indicates that some 90.7% of Wisconsin high school students graduate. "Wisconsin has been first or second in each of the last five years in that report, which uses the Public High School Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate from the Common Core of Data at the US Department of Education, according to a news release from the DPI."