Senate Committee Approves Dropout Proposal

{Frankfort, Kentucky}...The Senate Education Committee voted unanimously Thursday to approve a proposal that would give local school districts the option to raise the minimum dropout age to 18. The measure sponsored by Republican Senator Jack Westwood of Erlanger is an alternative to legislation being pushed by Democratic Governor Steve Beshear that would uniformly increase the dropout age for all school districts from 16 to 18 by 2017.