COOS BAY — Students at Coos Bay School's Harding Building are getting a little extra help to graduate. New graduation coach Gypsy Warrick has spent the summer creating a plan on how to best guide ...

Silina Branson, graduation coach at Thomas Jefferson High School in Council Bluffs, at right in middle row, works with students as they work on homework inside her office on Thursday, Jan. 26.

Seated on risers in the chorus room at Cherokee High School are about a dozen students who—just two months into the school year—have already missed five days. Their poor attendance is a red flag ...

They’re not the usual words directed at students who are at risk of dropping out. But Vigor High School’s graduation coach, Aisha Anderson, proclaims them in bright yellow letters on a red wall in her ...

Kevin R. Burnette used to be a math teacher, but today his job is to encourage high school seniors at risk of dropping out to stick with school until they graduate. Using attendance data and ...

To spread awareness, Bay District Schools is taking part in Teen Dropout Prevention month this October. Juanita Washington, the Graduation Coach at Rosenwald High School, said, "Our community needs to ...