High schools across the country are offering an elective class that advocates say gives middle-of-the-road students extra support as they prepare for college. AVID, which stands for Advancement Via ...

Every Tuesday and Thursday, the students in Brent Mikolaycik's eighth-grade class at have tutorials. Each student in a group of five or six will ask a question, and the students take several minutes ...

Key Peninsula Middle School teacher Janet Eidsmoe works with AVID student Curtis Staples in her classroom last week. LEE GILES III [email protected] A new program in two Peninsula School District ...