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March 30, 2005
Senate Bill 913: An Act Raising the Compulsory Attendance Age
Sponsors:
Senators McFadden, Hollinger, Gladden, Hafer, Hooper, Jones, and Schrader.
Summary:
Senate Bill 913 would have raised the compulsory attendance to age 18 from the current age of 16. The bill would have created an exception if the student has a high school certificate or diploma. It was given an unfavorable report by the Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs committee, resulting in the defeat of the bill.
Status:
| 02/22/2005 |  | (Senate): Introduced, First Reading in the Senate Rules Committee. |
| 02/24/2005 | | (Senate): Re-Referred to the Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee. |
| 03/22/2005 | | (Senate): Senate Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee Hearing at 1:00 PM. Location: 2 West Hearing Room, Miller Senate Building, 11 Bladen Street, Annapolis, MD 21401-1991. |
| 03/25/2005 | | (Senate): Unfavorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs. |
HSLDA's Position:
Oppose!
Action Requested:
No more action is necessary.
Background:
- The statistics in the third paragraph come from the February, 2005, publication of the Manhattan Institute's Center for Civic Innovation, "Public High School Graduation and College-Readiness Rates: 1991-2002," by Dr. Jay P. Greene.
- States which compel attendance only to age 16 have higher high school completion rates than states that compel attendance to 17 or 18, on average. (Source: "Dropout Rates in the United States: 2000", pp. 9-10, 40-41; National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, Office of educational Research and Improvement, Doc. No. NCES 2002-114.)
- States which compel attendance only to age 16 also have lower dropout rates than states that compel attendance to 17 or 18, on average. (Source: same as above.)
- According to statistics published by the federal Office of Juvenile Justice and Dropout Prevention, a higher compulsory attendance age is not correlated to a reduction in juvenile crime.
(Source: "Juvenile Arrests 1999." Washington, D.C.: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2000.)
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Mar-21-2005 — Maryland--Calls Needed to Defeat Expansion of State Control Over Homeschoolers
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