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- 61 % of low -income families do not have a single piece of reading
material suitable for a child.
- A third of our children come to school unprepared to learn.
- 75 % of students are poor readers in the third grade will remain poor
readers in high school.
- We have the nations highest rate of high school dropouts.
- One in four adults in Georgia operates at a low literacy level.
- 75% of students who are poor readers in third grade will remain poor
readers in high school.
- The county has over 3,000 citizens ages 25 and above that lack a
high school education or its equivalent, and of those 22% have less than a
9th grade education.
- Georgia scored 50th on SAT's in 2006.
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