Advancement Via Individual Determination — AVID — is the name and aim of a college-prep program that tackles the 'achievement gap.' Guadalupe Genis, Sammy McMahon and Edward Dominguez, ninth-graders ...

For the past 35 years, the San Diego-based AVID program has built a national reputation for steering underserved students to college. Turns out that AVID graduates — largely poor and minority students ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. High schools across the country are offering an elective class that advocates say gives middle-of-the-road students extra support ...

When scores of Highland Park students graduated Saturday, their ranks included the school’s first ever class of AVID students. Highland Park joined Topeka High this year in graduating a group of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marie Rose, third grade teacher at Awbrey Park Elementary, poses with current and former students during an AVID Spotlight event ...

The influence of teachers, the support of the AVID program and his own inner drive have propelled former Odessan Dé Kwaan Wynn to success. Now a software engineer living in Dallas, Wynn overcame a ...

— Four years ago, Lafayette High School senior Sean McManus thought the highlight of his post-high school life would be moving out of his parents’ home and working at the local Chili’s restaurant.

IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING, CALL DAYTONA BEACH POLICE. AFTER ABOUT 20 YEARS, A PROGRAM DESIGNED TO PREPARE STUDENTS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION WILL SOON BE CUT FROM MOST VOLUSIA COUNTY MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOLS AND ...