Donald Trump; Betsy DeVos (Credit: AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta/Getty/Mandel Ngan) Under the Obama administration, high school graduation rates saw a steady rise, reaching a record high of 83 percent in 2015, up from 79 percent in 2011. Much of that was attributable to students of color closing the graduation gap, with black students jumping by 7.6 percentage points in graduation rates over this period and Hispanic students jumping 6.8 percentage points, compared to a 3.6 percentage point rise for white students. Now Donald Trump, in his quest to make America great again, is embracing policy ideas that seemed design to roll back those gains and increase the high school dropout rate again.

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