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The state data dovetails with a recent report from the Dalio Foundation, in partnership with Boston Consulting Group, which found one in five young people in the state were either at risk of not graduating high school or had dropped out and were not employed or engaged in a workforce program. The report also said that one in three high schoolers — or 56,000 statewide — were at risk of not graduating in 2022.
Education officials and nonprofit service providers said the state legislature, the business community, and even voters are needed to help fix a statewide crisis of children and young adults who are considered at-risk or disconnected.
The issue of “disconnected” young people, as highlighted in a report commissioned by Dalio Education this month, has many facets. One is the sheer scale – according to the findings, about 119,000 young adults in Connecticut are at risk of not graduating from high school or are disconnected from post-secondary education or employment.
Typically when adults ask themselves, “What’s the matter with young people today?” any discussion can quickly devolve into a kids-these-days gripe session. But a report released earlier this month by Dalio Education provides a trove of data, bringing into stark relief the number of young people in Connecticut who have tuned out.