'You have a lot more one-on-one opportunities, and you're not there competing with anybody. Everybody is there for the same thing.'
"You have a lot more one-on-one opportunities, and you're not there competing with anybody. Everybody is there for the same thing."
Ryan, a Denver native who dropped out of Montbello High School to focus on work, found out about the Excel Center at 15445 East Iliff Avenue a few months ago. A social worker recommended the school, which opened in August and, while helping Ryan figure out which tax benefits she could receive for her daughter. Now Ryan is urging other adults who regret not finishing their education to try the Excel Center.
According to Goodwill of Colorado, more than 300,000 adults in the state don't have a high school diploma or a GED. Between 30,000 and 50,000 of those adults live inAurora's Excel Center is the first and only in the state. It opened with more than sixty students enrolled, but administrators hope to enroll 300 students by 2026 and open a second location in Colorado Springs.
"I just want to tackle it and get a high school diploma," he says."I feel like I could have done this when I was younger, if I just had the extra motivation at that time, I could have completed it then." Ryan just needs to pass U.S. history and senior seminar to get her diploma, so she's on track to graduate in a couple of months. A part-time driver delivering prescription medication for Capsule Pharmacy, she plans to use her high school diploma to begin training as an. From there, Ryan wants to work toward accumulating hours and training to become a paramedic and follow her passion of helping others, she says.
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