Boulder Valley School District's Dropout Rate Dropping
Boulder Valley discusses their dropout prevention efforts in the last few years and their partnership with Colorado Youth for a Change.
Helping Dropouts Pick Up the Pieces
As a Denver Post Charities Season To Share grant recipient, Colorado Youth for a Change was featured in the November 6, 2011 Denver Post: Helping Dropouts Pick up the Pieces
Colorado Youth for a Change Gets Students Back on Track
Colorado Youth for a Change was featured in the August 2011 edition of the North Denver Tribune!
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Once bustling 25th and Eliot has potential, needs more investment
The purchase is one of several activities stirring on West 25th between Federal Boulevard and Eliot Street, an unusually broad block that a volunteer neighborhood organization regards as an underachiever and is pushing to spruce up. The block once bustled with assorted shops and the popular Granada, which was part of a chain of theaters built by the Marx Brothers to show t...
Boulder Valley schools boost dropout-prevention efforts
Johnny Fernandez hated seeing teens, year after year, give up on school and slip away to an uncertain future.
"I feel responsible for every single kid," said the assistant principal at Lafayette's Centaurus High School. "You get tired of seeing kids disengage."
So he and others at the school gathered a group of students who seemed most likely to drop out, those with ...
CYC on Colorado Public Radio - Cutting Dropout Rate Would Boost Economy
A new study calculates the tax and income benefits of halving the high school dropout rate in Denver and Colorado Springs. Ryan Warner speaks with Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education. Then Sean Bowditch discusses the challenges of cutting the dropout rate with Steve Dobo of Colorado Youth For A Change.
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Dropout Sleuths - Denver Post Multimedia Presentation
Photography by Craig F. Walker,
Story by Allison Sherry - Steve Dobo and Andrea Garcia search for Manuel High School students who fell off attendance rolls after the school closed.
Trying, failing to get teen to take wing
On a winter night in an unkempt apartment in Aurora, 19-year-old Darwin Espinoza was trying to keep his girlfriend, Karen Quijano, from losing hope.
One girl's soap-opera "mess"
Monserrat Reyes was infuriated with her 15-year-old daughter, Cristina. The teenager had been lying to her about where she was, and the girl hadn't seen her little boy in three days.
Brothers juggling, slipping out of school
Seventeen-year-old Osvaldo Rivas watched his 5-year-old brother, Miguel, read "Clifford the Big Red Dog" to himself in Spanish, then looked at the clock. He wished, as he did almost every other day, that he could find a different job.
Fact Sheet The Dropout Crisis