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NC High Schools' Graduation Rate Rises Above 82 Percent, Sets Record
Eastern Wake News (N.C.) (08/12/13) Hui, T. KeungAccording to the latest high school graduation rate figures, 82.5 percent of North Carolina students graduated in four years this year, up from 80.4 percent in 2012. The state's graduation rate rose by 14.2 percentage points in the last seven years. State Superintendent of Public Instruction June Atkinson says, "All North Carolinians who have taken part in the lives of our children deserve credit for this. We want to strive to be as close to 100 percent as we can. We've done this with all the structures in the community that we have in place." She notes that the continued gains in the graduation rate are tied to more career and technical education programs and early-college programs, which allow high school students to get both a diploma and two years of college credit.
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