An October 2007 report by the Washington, D.C.-based Alliance for Excellent Education showed a $7.1 billion loss of lifetime wages for the nearly 28,000 dropouts in Arizona last year. State households would have gained $1.4 billion in accumulated wealth if those household heads had finished school, the report said.

In a 2007 report by the Washington, D.C.-based Alliance for Excellent Education, experts said Arizona would save hundreds of millions of dollars a year in crime, healthcare and remedial-education costs if about 28,000 students hadn't dropped out last year.

Former West Virginia Gov. Bob Wise is pointing out something that recently has landed some candidates for public office in hot water: “Those low-skill jobs that paid a livable wage are gone and they’re gone across most of the country.”

...Bob Wise moved on to another exceedingly challenging job when he left office as governor of West Virginia in 2005. He is president of the Alliance for Excellent Education in Washington, D.C.

Dropouts from the Class of 2007 will cost Mississippi almost $3.9 billion in lost wages and taxes over their lifetime, according to the Alliance for Excellent Education, a national policy and advocacy organization based in Washington.

The lack of a comprehensive database can be problematic, said former West Virginia Gov. Bob Wise, now president of the Alliance for Excellent Education, a non-profit group in Washington, D.C. That comprehensive system, he said, "can catch early-warning indicators" such as students failing in key grades and classes.

Former West Virginia Gov. Bob Wise sees a crisis in American high schools, and hopes citizens and politicians take note. Wise, who left office in 2005, is president of the Alliance for Excellent Education, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit organization that seeks better high schools and strives for more graduates. Wise says his new book — “Raising the Grade: How High School Reform Can Save Our Youth and Our Nation” — is a call to action.

AMERICA'S high schools are producing millions of failures - ill-educated teens with little prospect of success in the snowballing high-tech "information age" - former Gov. Bob Wise warns in a disturbing new book.... As president of the Alliance for Excellent Education in Washington, Wise has written Raising the Grade: How High School Reform Can Save Our Youth and Our Nation. The book says the multitude of dropouts and semiliterate graduates not only will suffer themselves, but they also will drag down America's economy.

According the Alliance for Excellent Education, nationally almost a thousand teachers leave their profession each day due to job dissatisfaction or the pursuit of another job.

The Alliance for Excellent Education states, "Each year over 59,300 students in Georgia do not graduate." The cost to Georgia? More than $15.4 billion in lost wages, taxes and productivity over the lifetimes of the 2007 dropouts alone.