School Teacher Defies Odds, Lifts Little Known High School Graduation by 526 Percent

In 1995, Molly Howard, a longtime special education teacher in Louisville, Ga., watched as the new Jefferson County High School building was being constructed. “Every day I’d drive by the building, and I’d wonder, ‘Who’s gonna run that school?’ And it kept tugging at me, ‘Why don’t you apply?’” Howard said. She applied and got [...]