Volunteers Go Door-to-Door to Re-Enroll High School Dropouts
October 28, 2013 RSS Feed Print
School districts are waging campaigns to re-enroll high school dropouts and help see them through to graduation.
As many as 1.3 million students in the U.S. drop out of high school every year. Their reasons for leaving vary – some need to work and support their families, othersunexpectedly start a family of their own and some simply miss too much school and feel they can't catch up.
For Erin Byford, who dropped out of school when she was 17, it was a boy.
"He was kind of controlling and I thought that maybe he could take care of me if I dropped out," says Byford, an Iowa native.
That didn't pan out, she says, and when the relationship went south, sh