By Emily Richmond, Las Vegas Sun, January 2, 2009

Nevada has one of the nation’s worst high school graduation rates. Sam Drew, associate director of the National Dropout Prevention Center, was the keynote speaker at a recent community summit in Las Vegas, one of 50 events nationwide funded through America’s Promise Alliance.

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