Angelo Drummond wears a pressed white shirt and a red power tie for his two-hour presentation to his harshest critics - a panel of fellow students at Camden's MetEast High School.
The stocky 17-year-old lays out his intention to study through the summer to bring up his scores on the SAT and New Jersey's high school graduation exam. He also explains his senior-year project to plan a lounge where teenagers can hang out, study and avoid the trouble that snags so many in his city.
The response from his peers: he needs to consider scaling back the project's ambitions - and learn more about how to get a nonprofit grant.
Angelo Drummond wears a pressed white shirt and a red power tie for his two-hour presentation to his harshest critics - a panel of fellow students at Camden's MetEast High School.
The stocky 17-year-old lays out his intention to study through the summer to bring up his scores on the SAT and New Jersey's high school graduation exam. He also explains his senior-year project to plan a lounge where teenagers can hang out, study and avoid the trouble that snags so many in his city.
The response from his peers: he needs to consider scaling back the project's ambitions - and learn more about how to get a nonprofit grant.
Fresno County teens will lead a statewide Web dialogue this week to come up with solutions on how to deal with the problem of high school dropouts.
The Dropout Crisis: Challenges & Solutions is a project of the Youth Graduation Empowerment Program, a Fresno-based coalition of young people and adults dedicated to addressing the dropout problem. The dialogue starts Monday and goes through Thursday.
John Minkler, founder and executive director of the nonprofit Center for Multicultural Cooperation, said Fresno teens are spearheading the program. "It's an idea that was born and created in Fresno," Minkler said.
I attend Roosevelt High School and until now, I've been very pleased with the school. I recently transferred to Roosevelt from Bullard High School to be a part of Roosevelt's School of the Arts magnet program.
At the beginning of the year, I was surprised to see that there were no lockers for students. I have a very heavy class load and when I say heavy, I literally mean heavy: AP Biology, AP Language and Composition, AP U.S. History, Honors Trigonometry/Precalculus and French III, all needing their own binder, textbook and journal.
How is a student supposed to bring books to school and be prepared for class when, if we carry everything, it would weigh more than 35 pounds? There needs to be a safe place on campus for students to store books so they have them when needed.
We've been following the Roosevelt High School shooting incident that occurred Wednesday with live, streaming video. We were at the press conference in downtown Thursday. [VIDEOS] | [PHOTOS] | [STORY]
This is the press conference that happened the day after the shooting (Thursday, April 17, 2008):
Photographs to be presented during the press conference:
Below is video that was streamed live from Roosevelt High School on Wednesday between 12:30 p.m. and 2 p.m.:
Students being released from school:
Awaiting release of students:
News conference with Police Chief Jerry Dyer:
More of the scene prior to the press conference:
Bee reporter Louis Galvan interviews a student outside the school:
The scene outside Roosevelt High School:
First video from outside Roosevelt High School:
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