'Choice Bus' Gets Students to Ponder Dropout Dangers
Traveling program encourages students to stay in school
A school bus of a different stripe idles in front of Crescent High School in Iva, S.C., this month.
The first half looks like a typical yellow school bus. But the rest is painted a dull white, the color of prison buses in Alabama.
Inside, eight 11th-grade girls sit listening to Chet Pennock tell them why they need...
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