school dropout

He was a high school dropout until the age of 23.

Too bad the author was a religious school dropout at age 10.

The high school dropout rate rose past 13 percent last year.

My father, for his part, was a high school dropout who worked as a security guard.

The problem is not like that of high school dropouts.

A typical student, she's a high school dropout, 25 years old with three children.

The other is a high school dropout from the Bronx.

Only two states have a higher high school dropout rate than Nevada.

Should there be a Federal role in reducing the school dropout rate?

The school dropout rate in Minneapolis is about half the national average.

High school dropouts make up 68 percent of the nation's prison population.

The high school dropout rate in Newark is more than 50 percent.

James is Alfred's best friend and also a high school dropout.

So it is with Carla, a school dropout who cannot find a job.

Nearly 60 percent of black men who are high school dropouts have done time in prison by their mid-30's.

High school dropouts in the work force - out there working for a living - what's happened to them?

President Bush now calls for reducing the high school dropout rate from 30 percent to 10, by 2000.

I wish to draw attention to the high school dropout rate.

Even these numbers are said to be conservative because they do not include school dropouts.

"The minority high school dropout rate is a major problem," he said.

Later this month, he will present the latest data on school dropouts and reading performance.

It's extremely difficult to turn a high school dropout into a college graduate.

Among black high school dropouts, only 23 percent held full-time jobs.

A high school dropout, he did not know much about poetry or grammar, either.

Chief Jenkins, a high school dropout, joined the police force in 1931.