Public Radio Intermediate Reporting Class

Sandhya Dirks:  The Students

In high schools around Oakland, as many as half of the current ninth graders will leave school one day and never come back. For black and Latino males the estimate is even higher—studies show up to seventy five percent of these young men will not graduate. From the Castlemont Community of Small Schools in East Oakland, Sandhya Dirks profiles two young people struggling to stay in school.

Sandhya Dirks:  The Students