Full Audio: Beshear Promotes Graduation Bill To School Boards

By Gabe Bullard

Published February 4, 2011 at 10:20 PM EST

Governor Steve Beshear spoke at the Kentucky School Board Association's annual conference Friday. He encouraged the audience to support a bill that would raise the dropout age to 18. Similar legislation stalled in the General Assembly last year.Beshear made other comments on education in his speech, and you can listen to his remarks here:

http://archive.wfpl.org/20110204beshearedu.mp3

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