Thank you, Madam Chair. The graduation rate in the early '90s was 25 percent. So they do lag, but they are improving. You have to keep the kids in school to get the graduates. What are we doing? There is certainly a challenge to get kids to complete school. I think one of the biggest deciding factors as to whether or not young people are successful in school is family support. If kids aren't being supported to get up in the morning and get out the door with breakfast in their stomachs, if they're not supported, if school isn't seen as important by the family, then it's a real challenge to translate the kid being in school to success. One thing that we are happy to say though is that the biggest growth in our success in the Northwest Territories in the last few years has been in the smaller regional centres. That's really what is important to see, because that's where we've really been lagging over the years; seeing success coming from the smaller regional centres.
The issue of success is one we're examining with the board chairs. How we can improve on school success? We have committed, as a department, to work with the Tlicho Community Services Board to examine why schooling appears to be more successful in that region. We're hoping to do a video that outlines some of what we find there. Then we can share that with people across the Northwest Territories, hopefully to improve on success around the Territories.
Madam Chair, if I can, the Member asked about the college campus and I forgot to address that one. Perhaps I'll go back to the college campus in Yellowknife. We currently have had Public Works and Services work on an evaluation of the current facility so we can do a cost-benefit analysis of keeping the campus where it is, expanding to a different location, looking at the different options. I believe they're taking a look at seven different options and I'm hoping to have that work done this spring. Concurrent with that, the college is participating in the community-wide work which is looking at facilities for Yellowknife over the next 10 years, which will determine what is going to be needed in the community over the course of the next 10 years rather than trying to do it on a piecemeal basis. Thank you, Madam Chair.