Reach Out to Dropouts is a door-to-door outreach that began in a dinner conversation between Mayor Bill White and his wife, Andrea White. It is the Mayor's and HISD Superintendent Dr. Abe Saavedra's common sense approach to solving one of our city's most pressing problems. "If something is important, you knock on doors." says the Mayor. Each year, when a student fails to show up to class at the beginning of the school year volunteers go door-to-door knocking at the homes of these students. The volunteers offer the encouragement and resources that these students lack to complete their high school education. This award-winning program has been followed by other cities across the country and continues to grow in numbers locally as well. Over the first four years of the event, the walk has brought back over 5,500 students with nearly 500 graduating. This year's walk included five new cities and 12 Houston-area school districts.
Mayor White and other community leaders lead the Houston Reach Out to Dropouts Walk each year.
Participating Cities and School Districts: Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, El Paso, San Antonio, Corpus Christi, Baytown, Richmond, Rosenberg, Stafford
