WNRN Wake-Up Call: Dropouts in the Public School System

Host Rick Moore talks with Diana Poe (WALK dropout prevention program coordinator (Work Achieved Lasting Knowledge), and Jim Henderson (Charlottesville City Schools Assistant Superintendent) about what the WALK program does and the type of students that are more likely to drop out of high school. Some of those factors include: being raised by a single parent, having a parent incarcerated, having basic school deficiencies, and more.