Education
High school dropouts get second chance at success
Miami Herald, Miami, FL – August 10, 2010
Last year, more than 700 young adults — dropouts, kids aging out of foster care and other at-risk groups — asked the Greater Miami Service Corps for help in getting their lives on track. But the Allapattah nonprofit group, which specializes in helping 18- to 23-year-olds get their GEDs and job skills, could only serve about 400 of those applicants, said executive director Deborah Dorsett. Starting this month, however, a new partnership with a national education program that teaches young adults by engaging them with technology will allow the Service Corps to help improve even more young lives.
