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As recently as 2009, just 55.8 percent of Duval County students graduated high school. Today, the graduation rate is 72.1 percent, according to the Florida Department of Education. This substantial improvement is largely a result of the work of Communities In Schools of Jacksonville, a nonprofit organization that places educators and other professionals directly in

For the majority of children, kindergarten through third grade is a time to learn reading. Students receive various methods of instruction in the expectation that most will acquire the basic skills during this period. Some students, however, do not learn at the same rate as the majority of their peers, and some fail to learn