Road Trip

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• src="http://www.gpb.org/files/images/achieving-excellence/ae_sept_2006_thumb.jpg" style="float: right; padding: 10px;" border="0">From the Department of Technical and Adult
  Education, Jane hosts Commissioner Mike Vollmer and Director of
  Communications, Michael Light.
• Their topic of discussion is an innovative new TV series
  called "Road Trip" designed to inform students, and adults, of
  technical career education options.
• Each episode of "Road Trip" is a self-contained story that
  opens doors for middle and high school students to the new and exciting
  opportunities offered by Georgia's technical colleges.
• Thirty-four technical colleges and three Board of Regents colleges with technical divisions are featured in the series.

Graduation Coaches

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• src="http://www.gpb.org/files/images/achieving-excellence/ae_sept_2006.jpg" style="float: right; padding: 10px;" border="0">Dr. Wanda Creel, Director of the Division
  of School Improvement and Reginald Beaty from Communities in Schools of
  Georgia are in the studio.
• There is now a Graduation Coach in each of Georgia's 385
  public high schools. Under the program, approved by the General
  Assembly earlier this year, each of Georgia's 385 public high schools
  can hire a Graduation Coach and send them to the training. The coach's
  primary responsibility will be to identify and work with at-risk
  students and help them get back on the graduation track before they
  drop out.