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NGA Annual Meeting Marks End of One-Year Push for High School ReformOutgoing chair Gov. Mark Warner (D-VA) stressed the importance of education to economic and national security and unveiled a plan for the standardization of high school graduation and drop out data at the National Governors Association's (NGA) 97th Annual Meeting, which took place last week in Des Moines, Iowa. The event represented the one-year mark for the NGA's high school reform initiative, which calls for states to demand more from their high school students. At a ceremony on Sunday, 45 governors and 12 national organizations signed onto Graduation Counts: A Compact on State High School Graduation Data, marking the first time in our nation's history that states have adopted a common definition for their high school graduation rate. Having this standard measure will help states and districts implement NCLB accountability standards at the secondary level.
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