Kansas City has more than 40% dropout rate in schools...

"... Research shows that high school dropouts are three and a half times more likely than graduates to be arrested and eight times more likely to be incarcerated. Nearly 70 percent of all inmates in our nation’s prisons failed to earn a high school diploma.

In Kansas City area schools, more than 40 percent of students fail to graduate from high school on time.... "

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