Announcing: The 100% Graduation Rate Program

Guaranteed or your money-back refund after 4-years, if your child does not complete high school. We dare, no double dare any high school drop-out prevention program in America to make this claim. According to the US Department of Education only 1 program is even qualified to accept this offer. With between one to two million students not graduating on time each year, theirs only 1, one, program that is deemed successful enough to motivate and inspire students who have been in our educational system and said that is enough. Theirs one program to try to prevent 26 million students from dropping-out of high school each year, one!

Why would you claim we have a drop-out crisis when; there is only one solution that our government is willing to fund to deal with this problem? According to CBS News Report “High School Dropouts Costly for American Economy, they say that it is costing taxpayers more than $8 billion annually in public assistance programs like food stamps. They report, High school dropouts earn about $10 thousand less a year than workers with diplomas. That's $300 billion in lost earnings every year. They're also more likely to be unemployed: 15 percent are out of work versus a national average of 9.4 percent. They also are more likely to be incarcerated. Almost 60 percent of federal inmates are high school drop outs.

Surely, there has to be more than one solution to this economic killing problem. Well, that is the current conclusion provide by the US Department of Education’s evidence-base arm, the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC). Yet, they do say there is 11 other program’s that show positive evidence towards addressing the problem. However, seven shows no viable results towards completing school, and the other 4 that do are more geared to GED (General Equivalency Diploma) certification.  Still there is only one program that has been proven to successfully aid in high school graduation, one.

The New Jersey Minority Educational Development organization wants to make it two, with their 100% Graduation Rate Program. The program has already been identified as an evidence-base dropout prevention model by the National Dropout Prevention Center. Unlike, any other program its main focus is on at-risk minority males, which represents the nation’s highest dropout population. The program features a hundred percent job placement for their students, 69% college enrollment with a 47% retention and a 28% college graduation rate. More importantly it has a 95% high school completion rate over a ten-year period (1996-2006). All this took place in one of the nation’s poorest cities, Camden, New Jersey (which was the nation’s poorest from 2000-2006) and named the nation’s most dangerous city from 2004-2005, with only a city high school minority male high school graduation rate of 39%. Clearly, no other city in America could challenge any program model; to create a program to get a better understanding of what it takes to motivate the nation’s highest drop-out population. 

The 100% Graduation Rate Program has made its case. They have earned an opportunity to qualify as a national evidence-base program model to assist in helping young men reach their full potential with a 95 percent school completion rate; a 94% next grade promotion rate, before summer school; and a 97% successful outcome rate for staying in school. The only draw back is it didn’t reach its 100% goal promise! Maybe, if the US Department of Education needs another program model to fund to try to prevent 26 million students from dropping-out of high school each year, the 100% Graduation Rate Program can accept the money back guarantee offer.