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Invisible dropouts: Thousands of California kids don’t get past middle school [SCPR.org]

SARAH BUTRYMOWICZ / HECHINGER REPORT

Devon Sanford’s mother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer when he was in the eighth grade. After barely finishing at Henry Clay Middle School in South Los Angeles, he never enrolled in high school. He spent what should have been his freshman year caring for his mother and waiting for police to show up asking why he wasn’t in school.

 

No one ever came.

 

“That was the crazy part,” he said. “Nobody called or nothing.”

 

[For more of this story, written by Sarah Butrymowicz, go to http://www.scpr.org/blogs/educ...-california-kids-do/]

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