from WZTV FOX 17, July 12, 2010
"Graduation rates are going up, but 28,000 students still drop out of school in Tennessee every year.
Solving that problem may be the difference in getting the jobs of the future and watching them go somewhere else.
Less than a month before the primary and the candidates face off in a forum hosted by Tennessee's Adult Education Task Force.
They're the men and women who teach GED classes to adult drop outs across the state.
Zach Wamp says, "One of the biggest challenges our next Governor has is to convince the whole state that literacy and basic education is the key to our competitiveness and we can't leave anybody behind."
Literacy is an issue in Congressman Zach Wamp's campaign for the Republican Gubernatorial nomination.
Wamp calls it one of the great divides between urban and rural Tennessee."