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Jacquelle E. Sconiers, Juvenile Justice Center School

Posted on Fri, Jan. 25, 2008

BY MATTHEW BYRNES

U/Miami News Service

ANDREW ULOZA / FOR THE MIAMI HERALD

Jacquelle Sconiers, Juvenile Justice Center School.

Jacquelle E. Sconiers teaches business and math, but her daily routine at school is anything but typical.

For the past six years, Sconiers has taught in the Juvenile Justice Center School in Miami's Allapattah neighborhood, where about 100 students in grades six through 12 have had some kind of brush with the law and are in detention. Many are dropouts or low achievers. [More…]