Until recently, this devastating reality remained one of our nation’s best-kept secrets. Reporting formulas that could be manipulated to boost graduation rates and mask the true dropout rate, combined with public reluctance to confront the structural economic and racial barriers contributing to educational inequities, have caused too many to ignore the urgency and the origin of the crisis.
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“It’s All About the Statistics”
The secret pipeline has played a key role in reducing districts’ documented use of exclusionary discipline measures and masking the severity of their dropout problem.
Historically, Connecticut students who withdrew from school to attend the Credit Diploma Program (CDP) at Adult Education were simply coded as students who “transferred” out of the school district, and the outcome of their educational experience – whether they actually went on to enroll and finish at Adult Education – was not reflected in dropout and graduation data.




