GED program holds its first graduation - al.com

GED program holds its first graduation - al.com: "FOLEY — Last year, 16-year-old Clayborn 'C.J.' Tate didn't even know he had any family in Alabama. That changed after the Chicago native got involved in gangs, he said, and was expelled from Thornton Fractional high school in Lansing.

That's when his mother asked for help from Tate's uncle, Chris Smith, of Foley. Smith offered this summer to take him in and make sure Tate continued his education.

On Saturday, C.J. Tate was one of three people to receive a general equiva lency diploma during the first-ever graduation ceremony of a new program started last year by the Foley Police Department, Faulkner State Community College and the South Baldwin Literacy Council."