Mr Poe, on the other hand, is a secondary-school drop-out and political newcomer.
The high-school drop-out rate, for example, would fall only from 17.3% to 16.1%, and the proportion of teenage mothers from 20% to 18%.
They like the folksy, guy-next-door manner of a high school drop-out who was a television reporter before entering politics as mayor of Calgary.
To them, Mr Shigeta will always be a spiv with a flaky past a high-school drop-out who was bound to come to a sticky end.
From being the son of (ethnic-German) immigrants from Hungary, a high-school drop-out, a taxi-driver and self-styled street-fighter, to lauded statesman: it all sounded rather romantic.
Unlike Mr Estrada, who served as a mayor, senator and vice-president before his presidential bid, Mr Poe, a high-school drop-out, had never run for office before.
Today, students from low-income families are five times as likely to drop out of school as students from high-income families, according to data from the Department of Education.
Some 97% of school-age children enroll, though over half drop out before completing secondary school.
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Many Latinos drop out before collecting a high-school diploma.
After his freshman year of high school, the precocious, computer-savvy kid decided to drop out altogether to devote more time to his passion for technology.
School enrolment rates are therefore substantially lower in these areas, and drop-out rates are relatively high.
And students with disabilities drop out of school at twice the rate of their able-bodied peers.
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Now, it's true that not long ago, you could drop out of high school and reasonably expect to find a blue-collar job that would pay the bills and help support your family.
Such a drop-out rate has its roots in the earliest years of school, when under-performing students are pushed through the system.
In sub-Saharan Africa alone, 10 million children drop out of primary school every year.
In sub-Saharan Africa alone, about 38 million children drop out of school each year.
According to the study, children growing up in one-parent homes are 16% more likely to drop out of high school.
For teens, there are drop-out and adolescent-pregnancy prevention programs, as well as after-school and literacy programs, among many other services.
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