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December 16, 2011
In Grand Island Friday, high school seniors who made that choice years before, assembled for a day they never thought they would see – graduation.
The Ombudsman Program, part of Grand Island Public Schools, is giving students a second chance; kids that had the world stacked against them and now are learning the world is at their feet.
"There were a lot of kids in my class I wasn't getting enough attention and I kind of gave up on myself," said Lauren Bopp, a new graduate. Two years ago, Lauren was one of 500 kids that were about to give up on their high school education in the state of Nebraska.
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Annie Andrews
WNTV- ABC Nebraska
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December 05, 2011
Revere public schools recently joined with Ombudsman Educational Services to create Coast Collaborative in an effort to lower the dropout rate in Revere, which is roughly 9 percent, School Superintendent Paul Dakin said.
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Sara Brown
The Daily Item
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Revere Public Schools
Revere
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Seacoast
Coast Collaborative
Massachusetts
Revere High School
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March 18, 2011
Nashville, Tenn. (March 18, 2011) – Mark Claypool, president and CEO of Educational Services of America (ESA), is a member of a panel discussing options for helping students graduate from high school at the first Building a Grad Nation Summit, March 21-23 in Washington, D.C.
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Ombudmsan Educational Services
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Civic Enterprises
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Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University
Mark Claypool
America’s Promise Alliance
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December 25, 2010
Six months after opening a new alternative school program for students with discipline problems, the Clarke County School District is beginning to see some promising results.
So far this year, the schools enrolled 159 students and only 11 have dropped out. Student attendance is also up - at SOAR, one student had missed 87 days of school, but at Ombudsman she has missed less than 10, according to Ombudsman directors.
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Ryan Blackburn
The Athens Banner-Herald
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Joshua Scott
Sean Simpson
Ernest Hardaway
Athens
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December 16, 2010
It's a brand new program that kicked off this semester–one that's giving kids a second chance. And, Thursday some of those students graduated. This is the first semester Grand Island Public Schools partnered with Ombudsman Educational Services.
Ombudsman serves as an alternative school for at risk kids. Thursday 7 kids graduated from the center, receiving the same exact diploma as their peers at GISH.
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Rachel Lake
KHAS-TV 5
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Clay Schutz
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Grand Island School Board
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