Last month the Baltimore Sun profiled Baltimore City Schools’ Re-Engagement Center, which was created with Open Society Institute funding.
The center, now in its third year, works to get students back into school after they have dropped out or been incarcerated or otherwise derailed by violence or trauma.
The Sun reports that last year, about 540 students came to the office for a consultation, and, of those, nearly 420 re-enrolled in a city school. Over the past three years, about 78 percent of students who return to school through the office graduate.
