Bill White jabs at Rich Perry over Texas dropout rate

AUSTIN – Can the governor of Texas do anything to combat the state's mediocre high school graduation rate?

Past governors haven't had much success – if they tried at all. And Republican Gov. Rick Perry says he's making progress in cracking the decades-old problem.

But his challenger in the race for governor, Democrat Bill White, contends he would do much more, touting a dropout recovery program he started as mayor of Houston that later spread to Dallas, Fort Worth and other cities.






{posted by Victoria Bell}