Programs aim to boost graduation rate

Baltimore County education officials have planned two innovative programs this fall that could help keep more than 600 potential dropouts in school.

Teachers are working to identify as many as 450 students in grades six through 10 who are at least two reading levels behind as candidates for a new math and reading program housed in an undetermined White Marsh-area school, said Dale Rauenzahn, executive director of student support services for the county school system.