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Cassie Cox teaches English class at Two Rivers High School in Ogden on Wednesday. A high school dropout herself, she teaches at the alternative high school and tries to help students reach their full potential.

Teacher uses experience as dropout to help at-risk students

Last updated Monday, October 17, 2011 - 6:14am

OGDEN -- When Cassie Cox dropped out of high school in 1992, all she saw were dead ends. Now, 19 years later, she inspires the at-risk students at Two Rivers High School to reach for the stars. She credits her life change to one major thing: education.

Cox remembers well the feeling of hopelessness she felt when she became pregnant at the age of 17.

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Grant to help OWATC educate school dropouts

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, July 31, 2011 - 9:57pm

OGDEN -- By this time next year, 36 high school dropouts will have high school degrees and a marketable trade to literally build up the community.

The Ogden-Weber Applied Technology College received a $1.1 million grant from the Department of Labor for a YouthBuild program that takes high school dropouts between the ages of 16 and 24 and helps them earn a GED or high school diploma and complete a construction trade course.

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