State's grad rates better, but still need improving
More kids are graduating from high school in Washington state these days, but a new report set to be released today says about 21,000 students still attend high schools where 4 out of 10 students do not earn a diploma in four years.
Washington has improved its statewide on-time graduation rate from 72.2 percent in 2002 to 73.7 percent in 2009, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University and a public policy organization called Civic Enterprises.