About 70 percent of Native youth who live on reserves in Manitoba fail to graduate high school, a researcher said.
That's the highest dropout rate in Canada, said Michael Mendelson of the Caledon Institute of Social Policy in Ottawa. The nationwide rate is only 16 percent.
The dropout rate is equally high in cities. In Winnipeg, half of Native youth failed to graduate.
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Most aboriginal youth not finishing high school: analyst
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Friday, December 8, 2006
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