Leticia Van de Putte: Says Bill White's program to bring dropouts back to school was "so successful that almost every city in our state has replicated" it.
The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True | Leticia Van de Putte says Bill White's efforts to cut dropout rate replicated by almost every Texas city
State Sen. Leticia Van de Putte praised gubernatorial candidate Bill White, a fellow Democrat, for his efforts to get dropouts back into classrooms during a speech last month to her party's convention in Corpus Christi. He "went door to door in Houston luring and asking those dropouts to come back to school," she said June 25. "Those programs were so successful that almost every city in our state has replicated what Bill White started." We wondered whether the former mayor of Houston's education initiative had really become so widespread. In response to our inquiry, Van de ...
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