For Youth

“JAG-DC’s Primary Focus is on Dropout Prevention!”

“In the United States, approximately 70% of students who enter the 9^th grade graduate from high school within 5 years. In the District of Columbia, however, only 43% (as cited in Double the Numbers – a report filed jointly by the DC College Access Program, DC Education Compact, DC Public Schools, and the DC State Education Office in October of 2006) of students who enter the 9^th grade graduate from high school within 5 years. Within Wards 7 and 8 – which are where 5 out of 7 of JAG’s sites are located - this number decreases with only about 1 in 3 students finishing high school and 1 in 20 earning a college degree. Even more discouraging is the fact that these numbers don’t take into account the estimated 15% of DC students who never enroll in high school. JAG-DC’s primary focus, therefore, is on dropout prevention.

Jobs for America's Graduates, or JAG, is a school-to-career program implemented in 700 highschools, alternative schools, community colleges, and middle schools across the country and United Kingdom.

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