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Governor Carcieri was one of three governors to participate in a summit in Washington, D.C., earlier this month on preventing students from dropping out of school.

Along with New Hampshire’s John Lynch and North Carolina’s Mike Easley, Carcieri participated in a panel discussion about what states are doing, and can do, to bring down dropout rates.

“When students drop out of high school, they are hurting their future as well as the future of their communities,” Carcieri said in a statement. Carcieri said he enjoyed “focusing on this issue with a distinguished and diverse group of people who are committed to ending what has become a crisis.”

The panel discussion was part of a summit that brought together education policymakers, congressional leaders, educators and students from across the country. Titled the “National Summit on America’s Silent Epidemic,” it was cosponsored by Civic Enterprises, the Gates Foundation, the National Governors Association, MTV and Time magazine.

The governor’s trip cost the taxpayers $2,546.37. That’s $848.79 per person for round-trip airfare for the governor, a state trooper and the governor’s education policy adviser, Janet Durfee-Hidalgo. All three flew to Washington the morning of May 9 and returned the same day, so no lodging costs were incurred.

smackay@projo.com

 

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