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High School Graduation Rates Impacting Violence
Comments 0 | Recommend 0As graduation rates rise, crime levels drop.
Law enforcement officials are pushing for increased high school graduation rates to help cut the crime rate across our state.
The results of a new report, "School or the Streets", show high school dropout rates have a direct impact on crime rates.
According to the report, a 10% increase in males graduating from high school will prevent 140 murders and nearly 7,300 aggravated assaults in Michigan every year.
Officials tell us nearly 70% of all inmates in our nation's prisons failed to earn a high school diploma.
In Michigan, an estimated 3 out of 10 high school students fail to graduate on schedule.
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