his high school career, and taxpayers could pay the price for years to come.
According to a study released Thursday by the University of California-Los Angeles, the suspensions of 10th-graders across the United States in the 2001-02 school year prompted an estimated 68,000 students to eventually drop out of school. Those dropouts, researchers say, cost Americans some $11 billion in lost tax revenue and $35.6 billion in broader social costs—such as health care costs, job loss, and potential earnings—over the course of a lifetime.
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