Via: WRAL.com

Gov. Beverly Perdue says she is determined to raise the high school graduation in the Tarheel state. Recent statics say that 30 percent of the ninth-graders still don’t graduate with a diploma in four years.

Nearly two-thirds of North Carolina’s recent graduates entering community colleges must take basic algebra, English composition or other basic courses again because they didn’t learn it well enough the first time around in high school.