So far this year, 26 states have reported their numbers.
Twenty years later the same state reported more than 616,000 cases.
Also, the state only reports new cases, not the number of existing ones.
While 41 of the 42 students who took that test passed, the state reported a 49 percent passing rate.
Several states now report performance by race, most notably Texas.
At least 13 states reported one drug resistant case in the first quarter of 1991.
Until this year, the 50 states have reported their dropout rates to Washington in almost as many different ways.
Some states are reporting a nearly 50 percent increase in homeless students over the last year.
At least 35 states have reported cases, New York having the most.
In 1989 and 1990, the state of New York reported the most cases, 6,468.