ACPS Touts Education at Adult Learning Centers
The school district held an open house Thursday at the Adult Learning Center’s Stonewall campus.
Jerome Vorus Jr. once held negative connotations about the GED, or general educational development test. Today, he has a totally different outlook. Vorus, as a teen, had medical problems that caused him to miss school days. He went on to earn his GED through a program operated by Alexandria City Public Schools. Since then, he has volunteered in Latin America and served as an intern on Capitol Hill and at the White House for a cable network. Vorus now works in technical operations for Fox News. “You can go above and beyond with the GED,” Vorus told community leaders at a ACPS Adult Learning Center open house Thursday. “It’s not going to hold you back. What holds people back is themselves. The GED does not measure the amount of success one …
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