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Pushing dropouts to drop back in: State task force seeks to re-enroll former students in education programs.
Byline: Lori Olszewski
Oct. 25--Darien Haywood, 17, realized dropping out of high school was a bad idea only after he was shot in his leg during a gang fight.
More than two years later, Haywood is poised to graduate in June from Olive-Harvey Middle College, an alternative high school on the South Side. He has college plans and aspirations to become a plastic surgeon. Haywood told his turnaround story Tuesday to members of a new state task force, whose focus is on re-enrolling dropouts. Haywood sought to show that young people can change with some help. The teens figure out they made a bad choice to leave high school after they face unemployment and too many idle days filled with empty television programs.
In Illinois, an estimated 210,000 young people ages 16 to 24 are not in school and do not…
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