Held back, but not helped
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 7, 2018
As a freshman, she constantly got into fights, and spent long hours in a disciplinary classroom. A 2011-12 survey found an average of 9 percent of students nationwide had repeated at least one grade; in Louisiana, the average was 23 percent. Most students lost months or even years of school time after Katrina hit in 2005.
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