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Jetta Productions/Getty Images The Indiana State Board of Education on Wednesday quietly rescinded an earlier decision to count nearly 1,100 additional students who left school without diplomas as dropping out. Instead, under a new, more lenient policy, the state will only categorize about 470 students from the class of 2020 as having dropped out because they did not have the proper documentation to show they were learning at home. The decision means some 600 students will no longer be counted as dropping out and therefore won’t negatively impact schools’ graduation rates. A Chalkbeat i...

The Indiana State Board of Education on Wednesday quietly rescinded an earlier decision to count nearly 1,100 additional students who left school without diplomas as dropping out.

Indiana reverses decision to count hundreds of hidden dropouts FREE NEWSLETTERS January 5, 2021 The Indiana State Board of Education on Wednesday quietly rescinded an earlier decision to count nearly 1,100 additional students who left school without diplomas as dropping out. Instead, under a new, more lenient policy, the state will categorize about 470 students from the class of 2020 as having dropped out sometime during high school. The rule determines whether students who withdrew to be home-schooled should be left out of graduation rates. Those students did not have the required documentat...