Drop-Out Prevention: Parents Play a Key Role

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For students with disabilities, the national school drop-out rate is a staggering 37.6percent,

more than twice that of their peerswithout disabilities.

For some minority students with disabilities, the drop-out rate goes as high as 50 percent.

3 For students with emotional or behavioral disabilities it soars to 61 percent.4

Such statistics have made school completion one of the nation’s most high profile issues in special education.