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How a dropout factory raised its graduation rate from 53 percent to 75 percent in three years

The Hechinger Report

But Communities In Schools, a Virginia-based nonprofit, is a vital pillar of support that directs students and families in need to community resources. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem. Under the Diplomas Now imitative three nonprofit groups provide staff and resources inside Webster High School.

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High schools fail to provide legally required education to students with disabilities

The Hechinger Report

Experts and parents widely agree that most students with disabilities do best academically and socially when they are in the same classrooms as their nondisabled peers, and when they are given the same opportunities to plan out their postsecondary lives. She said she holds her students to the same standards as their general education peers.

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