Sunday, July 17, 2011
Dropout Facility To Open
- {Kentucky}...A National Guard school program for at-risk teenagers that has been operating as the Bluegrass ChalleNGe Academy in Fort Knox since 1999 is opening a new facility in eastern Kentucky specifically for Appalachian youth. The Appalachian Youth ChalleNGe Academy is scheduled to open in 2012 in Harlan. The Harlan school will recruit in 23 eastern Kentucky counties, while any remaining spots would be open to teens from the Appalachian region of neighboring states. The new academy will be housed in a former elementary school and will serve 200 to 300 students a year who are either high school dropouts or at risk of dropping out.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 11:05 PM 
