Dropout Chasers

AP News - 552 days ago
Dropout Chasers
In this July 21, 2010 photo, Jose Romirez, right, a chaser at the Learning Works! Charter School, talks to students in Pasadena, Calif. The school was founded two years ago by Mikala Rahn to serve Pasadena’s highest risk youth, gangbangers, teen mothers, parolees, with one goal in mind, to get them to graduate high school. The school employs former dropouts as "chasers." The chasers round up the students, covering every excuse they use to not attend school. They will bring them to school, take them to planned parenthood appointments, to see parents in jail, to attend court hearings and even pick them up from juvenile hall and police stations. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)