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High School Drop Out

Determined to Make a Difference

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 02.06.2013 | Impact
Read More: Department of Education, Beat the Odds Award, Safe in My Brothers Arms, Prison Industrial Complex, Prison Pipeline, Poverty, High School Drop Out, Homeless, Scholarship, Child Homelessness, Homeless Children, Homelessness, Impact News
Marian Wright Edelman

Children who have to navigate the harsh reality of homelessness on top of poverty often fall through our already porous safety nets and disproportionately drop out of school and then, too often, drop into the prison pipeline.

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Every 26 Seconds, A Student Drops Out Of High School

Tyree Dillingham | Posted 06.03.2012 | Impact
Read More: Inner City, After-School All-Stars, Women's Shelters, San Diego State, After-School Programs, High School Drop Out, Tim Shelton, Advocacy, Impact News
Tyree Dillingham

In the United States, a child drops out of high-school every 26 seconds. Every year, we are producing cities the size of San Diego (1.3 million) full of students that don't even have a high

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