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Graduation: Project Graduation
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Project Graduation is about throwing one final bash before students move off into the wider world. This event represents the last time they will encounter each other as fellow classmates.
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It is time once again for chapters to begin planning for successful Project Graduation events. The impact chapters have had in their local communities has been tremendous since Project Graduation was adopted as a civic engagement initiative in 2002. Nearly 440,000 food items and 355,000 books have been collected and donated to organizations that create opportunities for many individuals in their communities.
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At a congressional briefing today, speakers discussed the significant need to include meaningful graduation rates in federal school accountability requirements and outlined the personal and societal costs associated with high school dropout rates, especially among poor and minority students. Only 53 percent of African-American students and 58 percent of Hispanic students graduate from high school, compared with 76 percent of white students, according to Editorial Projects in Education.
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