On September 25, Alliance for Excellent Education President Bob Wise issued a statement in reaction to today’s release of The Nation’s Report Card: Reading 2007 by the U.S. Department of Education.

Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia, issued the following statement  today on the launch of the Campaign for High School Equity, an unprecedented partnership of nine major organizations representing communities of color to ensure that America’s secondary schools have the capacity and motivation to prepare every student for graduation, college, work, and life.

The nation’s future economic well-being will considerably weaken unless it increases the percentage of minority students who graduate from high school to at least the level of their white peers, according to conservative calculations by the Alliance for Excellent Education in its new issue brief, Demography as Destiny: How America Can Build a Better Future, funded by MetLife Foundation.