A federal change in how high school graduation rates are calculated could have S.C. schools feeling vindicated. The federal department of education said this week that graduation rates are going to start counting toward No Child Left Behind accountability

WINDSOR — In a special meeting of the Board of Education on Friday, applause punctuated a 6-2 vote by the board to authorize Superintendent of Schools Elizabeth Feser to spend up to $15,000 on an alternate graduation site for the ceremony that will now

Newark schools awarded diplomas to more than 87 percent of its students last year, according to the state Department of Education. But when using a different method to calculate graduation rates, a new methodology that soon will become mandatory for...

In the last nine years graduation rates have been posted, the Olathe school district rates have been at a higher percentage than the state’s rates. That is one of the more uniform comparisons the district is able to make about how successful graduation

Many states are setting their sights too low in their efforts to improve graduation rates, and California is among them, an education advocacy group reported Thursday.