Colorado foster kids more likely to pass classes, less likely to get suspended with new state program

Colorado foster kids more likely to pass classes, less likely to get suspended with new state program

Wilberson Jolly did not expect to graduate from high school.  As a teenager in foster care, Jolly went to high school in Park County, then in Lakewood, then in Wheat Ridge. He always felt behind, like he needed to re-learn almost everything going back to first grade.  It didn’t help that each time he changed foster homes, Jolly started a new high school. At 18, when his classmates were graduating, Jolly was not even close.  The odds were against…