Thursday, April 23, 1998 | 3:51 a.m.
"Each year more than 500,000 students drop out before graduating from high school, which translates into close to 3,000 students a day," said Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., a cosponsor of the amendment.
"I am sad to report that Nevada has one of the highest drop-out rates in the nation. These are not statistics to brag about and they are statistics which I am determined to change," he said in a statement issued by his office in Washington D.C.
Nevada's drop-out rate from 1992-1994 was 10 percent, he added.
Reid and Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., succeeded in attaching the proposal to a larger education bill. It would create a national drop-out prevention program with $125 million available nationally for states to award as grants to schools or local districts.
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