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Seventy-five percent of the children in foster care are behind at least one grade level. They are also twice as likely as their peers to drop out before completing their education. You can help.
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That's less than half.
Only 46% percent of foster youth complete high school. Now compare that to the 84% completion rate of their general population counterparts. Are you a high school student in danger of becoming part of this statistic?
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A child whose family has been mired in poverty for 10 years is twenty times more likely to do poorly in school than a child whose family has held a low-income status for only 1 year.
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