200 city dropouts coming back to school

About 200 Baltimore City teenagers are returning to school since officials two weeks ago started a campaign to bring back all of this year’s high school dropouts, school officials said.

Principals have made phone calls, canvassed neighborhoods and knocked on more than 700 doors in search of the 925 students who since January have dropped out of school, school officials said. The success they’ve had holding two resource fairs where students can learn about their education options, including classes to earn a GED or fight substance abuse, has encouraged officials to hold six more of the fairs.