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Laura Speer, of the study and associate director of policy reform and advocacy for the foundation, said she was most surprised by improvements in the high school graduation rate (with 83% graduating on time in up 1 percentage point from ) and the teen birth rate: 22 births per 1, 000 girls in 2015, down from 24 in 2014.
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