Why latino students drop out

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These kinds of solutions may not make sense everywhere—there are many low-income communities where the issues are very different. Disclaimer: This blog contains the views, opinions, and positions of the author alone and do not represent those of The NEA Foundation.

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A key policy of the Obama administration has been granting school districts waivers to relieve them of rules put in place by the No Child Left Behind law of the Bush administration. In place of target dates for math and reading proficiency that have drawn educators' complaints, Obama directed his administration to grant schools waivers that gave schools leeway in meeting the NCLB standards. In exchange, the schools are required to adopt Common Core or other federal standards, focus on lowest performing schools and implement teacher and educator evaluations.

Those changes are regularly the subject of debate and controversy. Some states have dumped the plans they adopted to get the waiver. The growth of the Latino school population has also helped.

Successes and failures of the population are far more visible, said Patricia Gandara , a research professor of the University of California, Los Angeles Graduate School of Education. If it is large and seriously affecting graduation rates, you have to do something about it. In a lot of areas, schools have had to take this seriously and implement the programs to affect the schools," Gandara said.

The community too has been getting the message, and there has been an increased "beating the drum" of the need to stay in school, she said.