School Committee member Christopher Collins questioned the dropout rate numbers in Guy’s presentation. About one third or more of the 1,295 students cited are the same person, he said, because the system counts a student each time they re-enroll. That makes the pool of students the charter would draw from smaller, running the risk of appealing to students enrolled in alternative district programs, Collins said.
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