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Can Obama really stop kids from dropping out of high school?

By Perry Bacon Jr.

8:21 AM on 01/26/2012

theGRIO REPORT - In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, Obama called for requiring anyone who has not already graduated from high school or turned 18 to remain in school...
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Study: 'Opportunity Youth' have a combined taxpayer burden of 1.5 trillion

By Briana Lopes

3:08 PM on 01/25/2012

VIDEO - According to a new report prepared for the White House by the Center For Benefit Cost Studies and Education, there are an estimated 6.7 million youth between the ages of 16 and 24 that are not in school or the labor force...
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Top prep football prospect expelled for x-rated tweets

By theGrio

12:12 PM on 01/20/2012

His name is Yuri Wright, and he's a four-star defensive back prospect from high school football powerhouse Don Bosco Prep in Ramsey, N.J...
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'Rocky' Clark, paralyzed prep football player, dies at 27

By theGrio

1:49 PM on 01/06/2012

Rocky Clark's mom doesn't want her son to be remembered as a sympathetic figure, even though he spent the last 11-plus years of his life as a quadraplegic...
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NY high school basketball team suspended after chanting n-word

By Ashley Michelle Williams

12:46 PM on 12/09/2011

theGRIO REPORT - More than a dozen girls from the high school team have been suspended and face other sanctions for chanting the n-word in a regular pregame locker room chant...
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High school principal in hot water and chocolate sauce

By News One

9:10 AM on 12/05/2011

NEWS ONE - Sharron Smalls, the principal of Jane Addams High School in The Bronx, landed in hot water on Friday over the possibility that she improperly gave class credits to students...
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Alicia Keys to donate instruments to her high school

By theGrio

10:23 AM on 11/01/2011

NEW YORK (AP) - Alicia Keys is heading back to high school. The Grammy-winning singer will visit the Professional Performing Arts School in Manhattan on Tuesday and donate music instruments to its students...
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High school sets bathroom visit limit for students

By theGrio

3:32 PM on 10/18/2011

EVERGREEN PARK, Ill. (AP) - Students at a suburban Chicago high school will have to hold it or risk staying after school...
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NYC school mourns basketball star after shooting

By theGrio

1:03 PM on 09/12/2011

NEW YORK (AP) - Grief counselors are helping a New York City high school come to grips with the loss of a basketball star who was fatally shot in the housing project where she lived...
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Florida high school football brawl under investigation

By Tamy Cozier

1:43 PM on 09/02/2011

theGRIO REPORT - A local football game at Riverside High School in Sarasota, Florida took a turn for the worse when a verbal spat developed into a full on brawl...
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Houston gangs recruiting students, both the imposing and bullied

By Jaquen Castellanos

3:40 AM on 08/11/2011

theGRIO REPORT - The National Gang Center recently released a study that estimated 55 percent of all gang activity occurs in big cities...
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Banks in schools allow teens to cash in on financial literacy

By Alex Presha

7:00 AM on 08/04/2011

VIDEO - According to some studies, fewer than half of all high school seniors can pass a basic financial literacy course. That number drops to below 30 percent...
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Harlem high school celebrates a decade of 100 percent college acceptance

By Shanta N. Covington

7:00 AM on 08/04/2011

VIDEO - The concept of this single-sex focused school for young women was met with criticism in the beginning. However, the proof is in the numbers...
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Death of rising high school football star shakes Georgia team

By Jaquen Castellanos

3:58 PM on 08/03/2011

VIDEO - DJ Searcy was a rising Junior and a defensive lineman who his friends say was loved by all...
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Black alumna sues high school over 'Wednesday Wigger Day'

By theGrio

2:40 PM on 08/03/2011

TALKING POINTS MEMO - Students at a high school in Red Wing, Minnesota brought school spirit to new lows with a "Wigger Wednesday" dress-up day tradition...
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Man who posed as Texas student gets prison

By theGrio

12:39 PM on 07/29/2011

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - Guerdwich Montimere, 23, a former Haitian star athlete who posed as a teenager to play high school basketball in Texas was sentenced to three years in prison...
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High school student arrested for senior prank

By theGrio

12:20 PM on 06/03/2011

VIDEO - The teen was arrested after school surveillance cameras captured a picture of a man dressed concealing a package and leaving without it...
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High school play seizes power from the n-word

By theGrio

9:23 PM on 05/01/2011

WATERBURY, Connecticut (AP) - It is the essence of black pain, yet many African-Americans use it with pride, like a hard-won privilege...
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One dropout every 26 seconds is ticking time bomb for blacks

By Lawrence C. Ross

4:37 AM on 04/06/2011

OPINION - The high school drop out epidemic among African-Americans is not a ticking time bomb, it's a tsunami that's swamping the future of black America...
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Dallas high school students rally: 'Keep our teachers'

By theGrio

1:22 PM on 03/09/2011

DALLAS - North Dallas High School seniors held a vigil Tuesday night in support of their teachers, whose jobs may be at risk because of budget cuts...
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