STATE OPI BOASTS RECORD HIGH GRADUATION RATES FOR SECOND YEAR

Montana’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, Elsie Arntzen said on Thursday that she was proud to announce that graduation rates in state public schools have broken a record for the second year in a row.

“This is improvement, this is growth,” said Arntzen. “For two years in a row our graduation rates have been the highest ever. We’ve gone from 86.4 percent last year to 86.6 percent in 2018-2019. That’s only a .02 percent increase, but what that means is engagement. I have students in a four year high school cohort that are staying engaged and are learning, and that’s what the graduation rate means to me. I have student engagement and they believe in themselves and they believe in the public school system and they’re staying in school.”

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