Beyond afterschool
YouthBase offers academic and behavioral help for the youngest at-risk students
MAY 11, 2012 8:52 a.m. 
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A Greenville afterschool program that focuses on struggling and at-risk students is expanding to serve parents and target younger students as well. YouthBase provides academic and behavioral help for students who are below grade level or have been identified as needing support.
In the coming 2012-13 school year, YouthBase will begin to focus on students in kindergarten to second grade, said Executive Director Linda Tassie. The program now serves 13 students ranging in ages from kindergarten to fifth grade. They come from Hollis Academy and A.J. Whittenberg Elementary, and soon from Stone Academy, Tassie said. All receive free or reduced lunch, more than 90 percent are African-American and a majority come from single-parent households. Continue reading...
Student dreams of helping unwed mothers
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What started out as a response to a disturbing dream by a then sixth-grade student could turn into a home for unwed mothers in Greenville.
After Claire Capelle woke up crying from a dream about abortions being performed in her family’s basement, she decided to organize a walk to raise money for Birthright, a nonprofit independent interdenominational organization that helps women through unplanned pregnancies. Continue reading...
Fisher: ‘It’s about the children’
Schools chief retires after 43 years in education
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Not surprising at all, since “doing what’s best for children” was Fisher’s mantra during her eight years as superintendent of the nation’s 49th largest school district.
Fisher’s last day as superintendent is Friday, which is also the first day that her former deputy superintendent Burke Royster is elevated to the district’s top administrative position. Continue reading...
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