Advocates fear Gov. Jerry Brown's school funding plan could hurt small programs
Published: Thursday, May. 30, 2013 - 5:30 pm
Last Modified: Thursday, May. 30, 2013 - 5:37 pm
Pregnant at 14, Rhianna Schoon thought she had slender educational prospects. She wasn't sure if the demands of parenting would allow her to finish high school.
"I thought that I was going to have to drop out of school," Schoon said, "and at that point I started not even trying any more."
Then her guidance counselor referred her to a program for pregnant and parenting teenagers. Schoon received weekly parenting classes and enrolled her daughter Kailynn in on-site day care at her high school in Tracy. Kailynn is 2 1 / 2 now. Schoon, defying abysmal graduation rates for pregnant teens, is preparing to enter her junior