After surveying her peers and establishing a Facebook group, Akron student Kaliah Nash held a conference of her fellow students, business people, community members, and college students from the educational field to discuss the creation of an ongoing program to raise graduation rates. Nash started her project with funds from a joint AT&T and America’s Promise program called My Idea Grants.
Every 26 seconds, a student drops out of school. We cannot afford to lose one out of four young people to the dropout crisis. The Grad Nation campaign is a large and growing movement of dedicated individuals, organizations and communities working together to end America’s dropout crisis. Visit www.americaspromise.org today to find ideas, inspiration and resources you can use to help end America’s dropout crisis. Together, we can help millions of young people achieve their full potential.
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