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Manchester's Hot Couch Closes Its Doors

By Rebecca Kaufman on Friday, May 14, 2004.

One out of every four students in Manchester drops out of school, a rate above the state average.

In response to the high drop rate, the city has developed several programs to help students make it through high school.

But one that kept teens of the street and helped them work towards a diploma recently ran out of funding and was forced to shut its doors.

New Hampshire Public Radio’s Rebecca Kaufman has the story.

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