Dropping out of high school can cost Utah students their futures.
But it can cost everyone else, too. A new report released by the Washington, D.C.-based Alliance for Excellent Education on Wednesday shows how much money dropouts in three Utah counties are costing the state.
If half of the students who dropped out of the Class of 2008 in Salt Lake, Tooele and Summit counties had stayed in school, they could have earned $18 million more, spent an additional $12 million and invested an additional $4.6 million a year on average, according to the alliance. The report on the Salt Lake City metropolitan area was among 43 similar reports on areas throughout the country that the alliance released Wednesday in hopes of inspiring improvement. The Salt Lake Tribune.
