Looking out for the most vulnerable
by Sheila Simmons and Lynne Blumberg
While research indicated that youth in these three categories were a minority of those who left school without graduating, they did drop out at much higher rates than their peers. Project U-Turn, a citywide education collaborative campaign, came together in 2004 to tackle the city’s high dropout rate – with a particular focus on pregnant and parenting teens, adjudicated youth, and children in foster care.
In fact, between 70 to 90 percent of these three groups of youth left school without graduating.
Since then, several steps taken to reduce high dropout rates, including an overhaul of the juvenile justice curriculum and the opening of a Re-engagement Center (see Connecting) as well as an Education Support Center in the Department of Human Services, have been developed with an eye to these populations.
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