The Southern Poverty Law Center today released a briefing book with
innovative recommendations for reducing Mississippi's alarming student
and teacher dropout rates, the first step in a statewide campaign that
will bring together parents, educators, legislators.
"Our public schools should be citadels of learning, but they are
instead becoming dropout factories," said Bear Atwood, director of the
SPLC's Mississippi Youth Justice Project. "If we don't reverse this
trend soon, it will take a devastating toll on our state."
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