Uneducated kids imperil state growth, report says
A generation of poorly educated children unlikely to get college degrees threatens Florida’s ability to create a competitive work force and may weaken the state’s economy, a new report being released today says.
Many Florida students are not academically prepared for college, most will not attend and many who do will struggle to pay, says the nonpartisan National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education in Washington.
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Florida also is cited as one of only two states where the proportion of high-school students taking upper-level science courses has declined in the past 12 years, the study found. Black students in ninth and 12th grades are only three-quarters as likely as whites to take upper-level math and science courses, the report says.
