Dedicated to the citizens of Mason County, Washington since 1886
Dedicated to the citizens of Mason County, Washington since 1886
Shelton High School students are recently released from their school day. The Shelton School District is receiving from a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant that helps students and their families navigate the transition to two- and four-year colleges.
The Shelton School District is among about two dozen in the state receiving help from a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant because a low percentage of its graduates go on to college.
At the Shelton School Board meeting on Nov. 14, Superintendent Wyeth Jessee talked about the program. He said he attended a Gates Foundation gathering the previous day, and two statistics "rang out" to him: that Washington ranks 49th among the 50 states for the number of high school graduates who go on to two- and four-year colleges, and that "in the future, 70 percent of the jobs that will be around in the yea...
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