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High Cost of Texas High School Dropouts to be Unveiled Monday

Sec. Paige, McTeer and others to Discuss Financial & Social Costs; Possible Solutions

Fabruary 9 , 2007

Media Contacts:

Sean Tuffnell
(972) 308-6481
sean.tuffnell@ncpa.org

Dallas, TX – What is the true cost to Texas taxpayers of high school dropouts now and into the future? What can be done to reduce this continuing problem? Is school choice an answer? Former Education Secretary Rod Paige will join leaders from the Dallas-based National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), Hispanic Council for Reform and Educational Options (Hispanic CREO) and the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation Monday to unveil a new study quantifying both the short and long-term costs of failing to reform Texas schools.

WHO: DR. ROD PAIGE
Former U.S. Secretary Of Education

                                    DR. ROBERT MCTEER
                                    NCPA Distinguished Fellow
                                    Former Chancellor of the Texas A&M University System
                                    Former President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

REBECA NIEVES HUFFMAN
President & CEO, Hispanic CREO

ROBERT ENLOW
Executive Director, The Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation

WHAT: JOINT NEWS CONFERENCE TO RELEASE NEW STUDY:
“The High Cost of Failing to Reform Public Education in Texas”

WHEN: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2007
10:30 AM CT

WHERE: TEXAS CAPITOL BUILDING – AUSTIN, TEXAS
ROOM 2E.9 (2ND FLOOR)

A BILINGUAL SPOKESMAN WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEW.

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The NCPA is an internationally known nonprofit, nonpartisan research institute with offices in Dallas and Washington, D. C. that advocates private solutions to public policy problems.

Hispanic CREO’s mission is to improve educational outcomes for Hispanic children by empowering families through parental choice in education. We achieve this by providing parents with free information and resources, which help them become self-advocates for their children. CREO is a non-profit, non-partisan organization. “CREO is Spanish for ‘I believe.’”

Based in Indianapolis and dubbed “the nation’s leading voucher advocates” by The Wall Street Journal, the Milton & Rose D. Friedman Foundation was started by Nobel laureate Dr. Milton Friedman and Dr. Rose D. Friedman in 1996 as a non-profit organization dedicated to educating the public about the role competition plays in achieving real K-12 education reform.

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