SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - South Dakota attracts more high school
graduates from out of state to attend college and technical schools
than it loses to other states.
The U.S. Education Department reports that 2,134 students who
graduated from high school in other states started in South Dakota
postsecondary institutions in the fall of 2008. That's 570 more
than the 1,564 South Dakota high school graduates who left the
state to further their education that year.
Paul Turman, associate vice president of academic affairs for
the South Dakota Board of Regents, says that the gain in college
students will help fill jobs being created in South Dakota. He says
South Dakota used to lose more students than it gained, but a drop in
nonresident tuition changed that.
(Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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