Pushed out and punished: One woman's story shows how systems are failing black girls [usatoday.com]
Monica Rhor, USA Today , May 15, 2019. For the first time in a long time, C’alra Bradley felt a glint of hope. It was an unfamiliar feeling for the then-18-year-old whose life had been disrupted and derailed by one roadblock after another. Once an A and B student who loved to read, she was living out of her white 1997 Toyota Avalon, on her own for three years, scrounging to get by. But on July 18, 2016, as she attended one of her first classes at a GED and job training program in Houston,...