Today, students from low-income families are five times as likely to drop out of school as students from high-income families, according to data from the Department of Education.
As for the benefits to ordinary Gujaratis, Mr Modi cites more girls at school and fewer drop-outs from education.
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His two children had enrolled in the local school, and with Holiday's plans to relocate his family to Utah, the school's enrollment would drop from 71 to 69, which meant it would have to close and its teachers would have to find elsewhere to work.
From being the son of (ethnic-German) immigrants from Hungary, a high-school drop-out, a taxi-driver and self-styled street-fighter, to lauded statesman: it all sounded rather romantic.
The latest figures do show a small drop in the number of children being permanently excluded from school, which is encouraging, although it is unlikely to wow the voters.
From April-December 2008, the average drop in school meals was 1, 000 per day.
Thousands of children are being unofficially excluded from school, and official statistics showing a drop in exclusions are misleading, says the children's charity Barnardo's.
Take a moment to listen to the story of Setraniona, who regularly suffered from water-borne diseases and had to drop out of school as a child before completing her education.
Nomads set off in the morning to drop off the kids at school and then spend all day hopping from one third place to another, with stops at the gym, the post office and so on.
The high-school drop-out rate, for example, would fall only from 17.3% to 16.1%, and the proportion of teenage mothers from 20% to 18%.
High school students from families at the bottom 20 percent income group are six times more likely to drop out than students from higher-income families.
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