North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis (R-Mecklenburg) released the following statement today regarding North Carolina’s 80.2% graduation rate:
“For the first time, more than eighty percent of North Carolina’s high school students are graduating on time. This achievement is a testament to the hard work and dedication of our state’s students, parents, teachers, principals, and superintendents, and they are to be commended for their results. Our graduation rate shows that improving our education system is not simply a matter of dollars and cents. We must continue to give superintendents, principals and teachers more flexibility and ensure that education is driven by factors inside the classroom rather than by distant administrations and political rhetoric. Our broad-based, open-minded approach to education is helping students and educators improve outcomes across the state.”
