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Study: State must improve test scores

March 21, 2008
Huntington Herald-Dispatch (WV)

Updated report cards on performance shows West Virginia high schools are doing better than neighboring states in regard to dropouts and "promoting power," but falling short in performance on a national test. The reports, released March 13 by the Alliance for Excellent Education, showed in comparison to Ohio and Kentucky, West Virginia only has four high schools graduating 60 percent or less of their freshmen classes, which is considered the minimum for avoiding meeting the alliance's definition of a "dropout factory."