Why do children drop out of school?
"The reason students drop out of school are varied, ranging from personal and family issues to socioeconomic. National studies show that students who are most likely to drop out are poor, when they live in poor communities, or when they come a single-parent household."
"Students in large cities are twince as likely to leave school before graduating that non- urban youth. More that one in four Hispanics are twice as likely as African Americans to drop out while Whites and Asia Americans least likely."