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Board: Raise dropout age at schools

By Phyllis Moore
Published in News on January 12, 2010 1:46 PM

Raising the age at which a student can legally drop out of school could improve graduation rates, some members of the Wayne County Board of Education said Monday night. The Board of Education was reacting to recent comments made...

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