Old 10-07-2009, 08:25 AM
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Default Drop outs and crime
It has been admitted by Latino activists that the drop out rate is virtually unchanged from 40 years ago, even though Chicanista dominated administration virtually dictates the school curriculum.
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WASHINGTON - More than 3,400 murders and 172,000 violent assaults nationwide could be prevented if high school graduation rates were boosted by just 10 percent, a report released Wednesday says.
Law enforcement officials from across the country joined the national group Fight Crime: Invest in Kids to unveil the report, which shows that high school dropouts are three and a half times more likely than graduates to be arrested and eight times more likely to be imprisoned.
"With numbers like this, we're not just looking at dropouts, we're looking at a major public safety crisis," said Boston District Attorney Daniel Conley.
Nearly 70 percent of all inmates in the nation's prisons did not graduate from high school, the group said in a news release.
"I can tell you where to find dropouts. You can find them in any state. Go to where there are drug deals or prostitution going on. There are some as young as 13," said San Diego Police Chief William Lansdowne.
"Far too often, today's dropouts are tomorrow's criminals," he said.
The group is calling on Congress and state lawmakers to expand and pay for pre-kindergarten programs such as Head Start.
"Research shows that children who receive quality early childhood education have a much better chance of finishing high school," Cincinnati Police Chief Thomas Streicher said.
Nationally, more than $15 billion in lost wages and taxes, and health care and incarceration costs would be saved per year if graduation rates were increased by 10 percent, the report said.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articl...ts0820-ON.html
Forty years of Chicano studies