"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) Must be in the Front Row!: High Schools, Graduation Rates Receive New Attention from Policy Community and World of Politics; (2) Mother, Should I Trust the Government?: National Center for Education Statistics and U.S. Census Bureau Data Understate Dropout Problem; (3) NCLB and Graduation Rates: Double Standard in Reporting Test Scores and Graduation Rates?; (4) New Methods Emerge to Track Graduation Rates; and (5) Federal Government to Examine Better Methods for Counting Graduates. (Contains 3 footnotes.)