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By Jed Duvall
Special to the Rappahannock News
The job that will be open in May is indeed a challenging one, as director of the Next Step program at the Rappahannock County High School. Another difficult job will be to And a successor to the woman who started the program four years ago, Miranda Hope. Hope is leaving because she is having a baby.
The folks at the Headwaters Foundation, which supports many educational activities in the county, including Next Step, have handed their own personnel committee the assignment of coming up with a new director.
By all accounts in the school* milieu, Hope’s will be very big | shoes to fill. Before she began Next Step, four years ago, fewer than half the county’s high school graduates were going on to something meaningful, such as college, training for a trade, or military service. That fraction is now roughly three-fourths.
How did this happen?
“I like to meet each kid and find out what his or her dreams are,” says Hope, Next Step, which complements the work of the guidance counselors at the school, provides face-to-face assistance in learning about the opportunities after high school, gives young people a sense of what various college
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