Dropouts build new foundations at D.C. charter school
Washington PostPosted: April 27th, 2006 by R. Lee Wrights
“These are the kids who mow your lawn, flip your burgers and work the register at CVS. Some vanish from the D.C. schools before they turn 15. Some have babies before they can drive. … Now they are back in school, on track to earn a diploma and know a trade — construction, learned on the job, on Holbrook Terrace NE near Gallaudet University, where students from YouthBuild charter school are gutting and rebuilding three apartment buildings that will soon be sold as affordable housing. As the D.C. public school system prepares to shut down many of its smallest facilities, this school of 36 students — now completing its first year — is quickly starting to change lives.” (04/27/06)
