No fooling: Cutting Louisville’s high school dropouts by 50 percent would save millions

The Alliance for Excellent Education has just posted new estimates that if we could cut the Jefferson County Public School System’s disastrous dropout rates for African-Americans by 50 percent, that there would be a benefit to those kids of color of $4.3 million. A similar cut for the city’s Latino and Asian students would save another $1.3 million.

That in turn could trigger additional economic benefits for the city in areas like increased home and automobile sales and investment that would generate over $11 million more.

It sure beats what too often happens now, where the taxpayer winds up paying for incarceration of the under-educated in Kentucky who cannot get and hold a job.

Hat tip to KSN & C for finding the article.