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TO DESIGNATE THE SECOND WEEK OF SEPTEMBER, 2015, AS "GRADUATION AWARENESS WEEK OF 2015" IN SOUTH CAROLINA AND TO RAISE AWARENESS OF SCHOOL DROPOUT RATES.
Whereas, over 1.2 million students in the United States drop out of high school every year, which is approximately seven thousand students per day; and
Whereas, roughly seventy-five percent of students in South Carolina actually graduate from high school; and
Whereas, seventy-five percent of state prison inmates and fifty-nine percent of federal prison inmates are high school dropouts; and
Whereas, additionally, South Carolina's children are faced with incredible obstacles to learning because one in three children will grow up in poverty; and
Whereas, in South Carolina, only one-third of high school students will graduate on time, and absent awareness and action, that number is not expected to increase; and
Whereas, South Carolina should have a program designed to help raise awareness of high school drop-out rates and to lower the drop-out rate; and
Whereas, GradUate SC, a program established by the Leadership South Carolina Class of 2015 in conjunction with key partners, seeks to raise awareness regarding dropouts in South Carolina by informing the business community about its role in both providing jobs and helping decrease the dropout rate, educating middle school and high school students about how they can stay in school and why they should earn a high school diploma, and encouraging legislators to affect change in public policy for dropout prevention. Now, therefore,
Be it resolved by the House of Representatives:
That the members of the House of Representatives, by this resolution, designate the Second Week of September, 2015, as "Graduation Awareness Week of 2015" in South Carolina and to raise awareness of school dropout rates.
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