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Governors, National Organization Reach Agreement on Graduation Rate
More Chairman's Initiative News Releases... Related Documents:
 Graduation Counts: A Report of the NGA Task Force on State High School Graduation Data
Graduation Counts: A Compact on State High School Graduation Data  A Profile of State Action to Improve America's High Schools
Summary of Results for the Rate Your Future Survey Honor States Program:
| NGA Center for Best Practices Honor States Program | | The NGA Center for Best Practices has announced the award of ten Phase One Honor States High School Grants and requests proposals for Phase Two of the Honor States Grants Program. Read more... News Release |
About the Chairman's Initiative: Printable Brochure - (pdf) Through Gov. Warner's initiative, Redesigning the American High School, the National Governors Association (NGA) is addressing the urgent need to improve high schools. In addition to the 2005 National Education Summit on High Schools, Gov. Warner and NGA released a five-point state action agenda for high school redesign and a list of 10 Steps for getting started on this agenda. Governors now have a compilation of promising state and local practices to implement these 10 recommendations. Town hall meetings across the country and recommendations for common state data collection of high school graduation and dropout rates complete the initiative's major activities. The Redesigning the American High School initiative is generously supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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