GED and other high school equivalency degrees drop by more than 40% nationwide since 2012
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 8, 2018
Red states are where the annual issuance of new high school equivalency diplomas has fallen by more than 50 percent between 2012 and 2016. Map created by Jill Barshay/Hechinger Report. The number passing the exam and earning a diploma has decreased more than 40 percent from almost 400,000 in 2012 to just over 225,000 in 2016.
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