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This year, an Anchorage program to help struggling students graduate is confronting a much greater need Published December 20, 2020
Barb Dexter is a secondary teacher specialist with the Child in Transition program, photographed in Anchorage on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. She also helps coordinate The Back on Track program which is a credit recovery program for students who are at high risk of not graduating. (Emily Mesner / ADN)
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, Anchorage teacher Barb Dexter received a text from one of her ninthgrade students and stopped speaking midsentence during an interview. It was only 14 degrees that day. The student, who is homeless, was stuck outdoors with a young sibling and nowhere to go.