Currently happening with high school students in Colorado:

76.9 percent graduate.

10,664 drop out of high school every year, which will cost them an estimated total of $3.8 billion in lifetime earnings.

Not only will they earn less, high school dropouts cost society an average of $300,000 each in support services over their lifetime, about $3.2 billion for those 10,664 students.

37 percent need remedial classes in college.

38 percent participate in career and technical education classes.

By 2020, three out of four jobs in Colorado will require education or training beyond high school, about 3 million jobs Colorado employers are already unable to find enough workers to fill in some manufacturing, health, technology and science-based industries because graduating students are not prepared to be successful in those jobs.