A National Dropout Prevention Act For 2007

Preamble
Nearly half-a-million students drop out of high schools across the
United States every year.

Each year's class of dropouts will cost the country over $200 billion during their lifetimes in lost earnings and unrealized tax revenue

The tax revenue lost from every male between the ages of 25 and 34 years of age who did not complete high school would be approximately $944 billion, with cost increases to public welfare and crime at $24 billion.

59% of America's federal prison inmates did not complete high school.

Purpose
The purpose of the NDPA of 2007 is to initiate a campaign among school districts, universities, nonprofit organizations, parents associations and educators to curb the dropout epidemic.

Target
The nation's dropout problem is most desperate in between 200 to 300 schools in the 35 largest cities in the U.S. The cities are Indianapolis, Detroit, Cleveland, San Antonio, Baltimore, Fort Worth, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York City, Austin, Columbus, Milwaukee, Denver, Kansas City, Nashville, Memphis, El Paso, Oklahoma City, Portland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, San Diego, Washington D.C., Long Beach, Phoenix, San Jose, Seattle, Tucson, Virginia Beach, New Orleans, Jacksonville, and Charlotte.

Goals

1. To provide money to colleges of education, research institutions, universities and other nonprofit organizations for the purpose of conducting research and developing model dropout prevention programs for the school systems and districts most impacted by the dropout problem
   
   
2. To provide money to the highest impacted cities for developing Early Warning Systems which will enable Principals and district administrators to identify those students most likely to drop out and to develop intervention teams and strategies to prevent leaving school before graduation.
   
   
3. To provide money to school districts and nonprofit organizations to produce and publish dropout prevention materials for parents, students and school staff.

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