{"id":4312,"date":"2016-03-23T15:03:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T15:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/03\/30\/riley-institutes-diversity-leaders-reach-out-to-north-charleston-high-students\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:50:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:50:28","slug":"riley-institutes-diversity-leaders-reach-out-to-north-charleston-high-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/riley-institutes-diversity-leaders-reach-out-to-north-charleston-high-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Riley Institute&#8217;s Diversity Leaders reach out to North Charleston High students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>School choice sounds like a good thing \u2026 until it isn\u2019t. In recent years, two-thirds of students zoned for North Charleston High School have left to attend others schools \u2013 a reality that sacks the school\u2019s graduation rate and feeds its \u201cat risk\u201d report card status. Participants in the Riley Institute\u2019s Diversity Leaders Initiative came up with a plan to help those who remain at NCHS get the funds they need to attend a local community college. Read on to learn about \u201cCollege for Cougars\u201d in an article that appeared in Sunday&#8217;s\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20160313\/PC16\/160319726\">The Post and Courier<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School choice sounds like a good thing \u2026 until it isn\u2019t. In recent years, two-thirds of students zoned for North Charleston High School have left to attend others schools \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":15761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centers-and-institutes","category-in-the-news","category-riley-institute"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}