The Houston Chronicle is reporting that One-Third of Students in Texas Don’t Graduate. The article is not referring to college, but high school.

One out of three Texas students don’t graduate, and more students drop out than finish high school in the state’s largest cities, according to education experts.

Statewide, more than 2.5 million students have dropped out of Texas high schools in the last 20 years, and each graduating class loses about 120,000 students from freshman year to senior year, according to the San Antonio-based Intercultural Development Research Association.

The article does say that the dropout rate among blacks, Hispanics and low-income students is about 60 percent. I wonder how many of these are children of illegal immigrants? Regardless, this is really sad… the school system here definitely needs some work!