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Americas Fastest-Growing Female Population Is Dropping Out of School. Heres What Helps Them Stay.

Published: Nov. 17, 2017, 7:59 p.m.

b'Clocking 52 hours a week at $9.50 an hour to supplement her mom\\u2019s housecleaning income left Arredondo little time for homework throughout her high school years. And it showed. Her grades fell and she almost failed to graduate\\u2014just like 52 percent of her classmates. Yet just six weeks after she enrolled in a program that helps children who live in poverty remain in school, Arredondo is giddy with the thought that she will soon don a cap and gown.'