In urban schools it is over 20 percent, and, in some schools and districts, the teacher dropout rate is actually higher than the student dropout rate.

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The government wariness of for-profit colleges is not without merit, as dropout rates and student loan default rates among their graduates are far higher than at traditional universities.

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We need to have a big tax cut for high-income people, and we need to cut all these investments and cut all this education and repeal the student loan law, make college loans more expensive and increase the dropout rate.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

Consider these facts: A minority student is four times more likely than a non-minority student to attend a high school with very low graduation rates (so-called "dropout factories") and three times less likely to attend a high school with very high graduation rates.

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