Northwestern HS Day Care Helps Teen Moms Graduate
Washington Post profiles school's innovative day-care facility for children of high school students, which boasts a 95 percent graduation rate.
Did you know that Northwestern High School is one of two Prince George's County schools with a day care facility for the children of its students? A report published in The Washington Post yesterday profiled the school's Early Head Start day care program, which boasts a 95 percent graduation rate. According to The Post, there are only a handful of such high-school-based day care programs in the country. Maxine Thompson Burroughs, who oversees Northwestern's day care program, said the facility allowed girls to get an education who might otherwise have withdrawn from classes to care for their children. “A lot of people think we are enabling pregnancy,” said Maxine Thompson-Burroughs, who operates the Early Head Start program at Northwestern…
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