December 4, 2011

A Narrower Focus Helps City Year Win Grants and Increase Its Impact

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Jennifer Cogswell/City Year

City Year focuses its efforts to help reduce student dropout rates on students in high school, middle school, and even in the upper elementary grades.

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Jennifer Cogswell/City Year

City Year focuses its efforts to help reduce student dropout rates on students in high school, middle school, and even in the upper elementary grades.

By Nicole Wallace

Washington

This fall Jason Kim started a before-school tutoring program here at Browne Education Campus, where he serves as a City Year volunteer. The first two weeks, he didn’t assist a single student.

But the 18-year-old kept showing up at 7 a.m.—and slowly, some kids at the combined elementary and middle school started to ask for help. One of the first, a seventh grader, is now helping two fifth graders whom Mr. Kim tutors during the school day. The City Year corps member hopes

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