From The Newsroom: Graduation Rates Raise Eyebrows, Preventing Crimes Against Women

KERA | By Courtney Collins

Published March 18, 2015 at 6:50 PM CDT

The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

Numbers just released by the National Center for Education Statistics show Texas as the number one state in graduation rates for black and Latino high school students. But this year’s numbers sparked a familiar debate.

And the 10^th annual conference on Crimes Against Women ended Wednesday in Dallas.

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Courtney Collins

Courtney Collins has been working as a broadcast journalist since graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 2004. Before coming to KERA in 2011, Courtney worked as a reporter for NPR member station WAMU in Washington D.C. While there she covered daily news and reported for the station’s weekly news magazine, Metro Connection.

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