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HFM BOCES puts spotlight on urgent need to raise graduation rates

For the 2008-09 school year, HFM BOCES has launched an initiative to help raise awareness among parents, educators and community residents about what causes teens to drop out -- and what we can do as individuals and collectively to boost graduation rates.

It's a serious problem

Across the nation, nearly one-third of high school students will not graduate – that’s 1.2 million students a year, or 7,000 each school day.

Regionally, the numbers are better, with 76 percent of high school seniors on average graduating each year in the HFM BOCES area.

But those numbers aren’t nearly good enough, not for the individuals whose opportunities are limited by their lack of education, and not for society as a whole.

Throughout the 2008-09 school year, HFM BOCES will continue to post resources to help area educators and parents work together to boost graduation rates.

Please bookmark this page and check back soon for more information.

Drop-out Prevention Resources

• www.dropoutprevention.org

• www.americaspromise.org



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	Daylight Savings Time ends Sunday at 2 a.m. Remember to set your clocks back one hour Daylight Savings Time for the United States ends Sunday, Nov. 1, at precisely 2 a.m. If the date seems later than you remember from the past, you're right. In 2007, Congress changed the law to extend Daylight Savings time by one month. For 20 years, Daylight Savings Time started the first Sunday in April and ended the last Sunday in October. Now Daylight Savings Time starts the second Sunday in March and extends through to the first Sunday in November. In case you were wondering, Arizona is the only state that doesn't observe Daylight Savings Time.

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