- Study: Community college dropout rate costly, By Paul Takahashi, October 20, 2011, Las Vegas Sun: “Dropping out of school carries a high cost – and it’s not just to the student. A new report analyzing spending on community college dropouts nationally found that failing to graduate cost taxpayers nearly $4 billion at the federal, state and local levels over a five-year period. In Nevada, the cost of funding community college students who dropped out after one year was estimated at $8.8 million between 2004 and 2009, according to the report released Thursday by the American Institutes for Research – a Washington, D.C. – based nonprofit, nonpartisan research group…”
- High cost of first-year community college dropouts, By Nanette Asimov, October 20, 2011, San Francisco Chronicle: “Like making a bad bet in Vegas, taxpayers gamble hundreds of millions of dollars a year on community college students who quit as freshmen – many in California. A new study shows that from 2004 to 2009, Americans spent nearly $4 billion on full-time students who dropped out after one year and didn’t transfer. California’s first-year dropouts benefited from $480 million in tax-funded grants and allocations in that time – more than any other state – says the study, ‘The Hidden Costs of Community Colleges,’ from the nonpartisan American Institutes for Research in Washington, D.C…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty