American Graduate
American Graduate
1:22 pm
Fri January 25, 2013
Faces of Metro Atlanta's Dropout Rate: Jean Hudley
Back in 2004, Jean Hudley created a non-profit organization in Reynoldstown called "Boys to Men." It serves the male youth in the neighborhood.
Every day she offers GED classes and teaches life skills to 16 young men between 18 and 23. Others show up on an irregular basis.
Jean herself is a high school drop-out. She stopped going to William Howard Taft high school in the Bronx in 1964 when she was 16 years old. That’ one of the reasons she started her organization.
In our on-going series profiling high school drop outs here is part one of Jean’s story.
American Graduate
7:45 am
Tue January 15, 2013
Faces of Metro Atlanta's Dropout Rate: Andre Paraguassu
A recent federal report revealed that Georgia has one of the worst graduation rates in the nation, third from the bottom.
Nearly half of the state’s students do not make it to graduation. Research shows that failing classes, coming from a low-income household, and failure early in school are some of the most common predictors for becoming a drop-out.
In 2001, Andre Paraguassu dropped out of Milton High school in north Fulton County as soon as he could. He was 16. This is Andre’s story.