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New Chestatee program helping students with disabilities, at-risk kids shows positive results
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Chestatee High ninth-grader Trevor Buffington works on his laptop after school during the school's Flight program. Chestatee High has begun tracking and offering tutoring and other after-school programs for groups of struggling ninth-graders in various fields of their studies.
A new program targeting 50 Chestatee High School students who have disabilities or are considered at-risk appeared to show some positive results in its first two months, according to the teacher overseeing the program. Angela Shepheard, who leads the school’s Flight program, said Friday that year-end numbers show that 14 of 24 ninth-graders in the identified group who passed all seven of their classes were students who were regularly attending program that ran March 9-May 17. Nearly two-thirds of the students who participated in the program were promoted to 10th grade.