2018 National High School Graduation Rate is 85%
During the same period, 5.3% of students didn't graduate.
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2019 National High School Dropout rate is 5.1%
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Saving Our Communities at Risk Through Educational Services (SOCARTES)
A Snapshot of SOCARTES’ Work
S. L. Young discusses educating inmates and dealing with depression / holiday blues on the Maggie Linton Show. This is an encouraging and uplifting interview about the importance of educating inmates, along with thoughtful commentary about the ways individuals can deal with depression to reduce or eliminate holiday blues.
S. L. Young delivers the commencement address at the Fairfax County Public Schools - Interagency Alternative Schools (IAS) Graduation. This is a very unlikely commencement address because Mr. Young was directed to leave high school in the 10th grade after failing 6 of 7 classes in this same school district. He would go on to barely graduate high school on-time, but in the bottom 8% of his class.
SOCARTES' founder (S. L. Young) speaking on his show "Beyond Just Talk" with Kristen Cane from the Arlington County Detention Facility about the importance of volunteering at a jail.
Letters of Support
S. L. Young discusses using social entrepreneurship to achieve success beyond profits at Alpha Kappa Psi's "Principled Business Leadership Institute" on 2/6/16.
S. L. Young sees communities commonly called “at risk” differently. He sees “opportunity communities,” places where positive change saves lives and creates new possibilities for people in that place.
SOCARTES' founder (S. L. Young) speaking on his show "Beyond Just Talk" with Kristen Cane from the Arlington County Detention Facility about the importance of volunteering at a jail.
SOCARTES Celebrates Forward Progress
"Don't devalue any positive struggles toward an endpoint, because completion and success feel the same no matter the way you started."
S. L. Young
SOCARTES President and Founder (S. L. Young) with Arlington County Sheriff Beth Arthur and his nonprofit organization’s hero — Program Manager Kristen Cane.
This picture was taken to recognize Mr. Young as for being “Volunteer of the Month” for his work with inmates at the Arlington County Detention Facility.