Dropout Prevention and Recovery Initiatives

What we know about dropouts:

• Dropping out is more of a process than an event -- a process that, for students, begins in early elementary school.
• Poor academic achievement as early as elementary school is one of the strongest predictors of dropping out.
• Preschool improves school readiness and early school success, positively affecting student outcomes, including high school completion.
• Grades are more consistent than test scores in predicting which students will leave school without graduating.
• Several behaviors both in and out of school -- including absenteeism, delinquency and substance abuse -- are strong indicators of dropping out.
• A stable home environment and access to social and financial resources strongly influence the likelihood that a student will graduate.

Texas Dropout Prevention and Recovery Initiatives

• Dropout Prevention and Recovery Programs
• Texas Strategies for Dropout Prevention
• TEA Dropout Prevention Assets
• Research
• Resources
• Policy
• Commissioner's Rules Concerning Dropout Prevention Strategies: Texas Administrative Code (TAC) Chapter 89 Subchapter GG.  
• Compensatory education allotment  Texas Education Code (TEC) §42.152
• Dropout prevention strategy plan TEC §29.918
• High school allotment TAC Chapter 61 Subchapter II
• Plan to increase college enrollment TEC §29.904
• School improvement plan TEC §39.1323; TEC §39.073
• Identification of districts with a high dropout rate TEC §29.918(a)

Department of State Initiatives