Lincoln's Challenge Academy class begins quest for new life
By Tim Mitchell
Sunday August 3, 2008
Robert K. O'Daniell
Candidates hit the ground running on the first day for Team 3 at Lincoln's Challenge Academy.
RANTOUL – Lasante Sutherland, a 16-year-old high school dropout, stepped off the bus on a hot and humid July morning onto the former Chanute Air Force Base.
Lasante is one of 413 boys and 109 girls, all high school dropouts, embarking on a new way of life at Lincoln's Challenge Academy, a military-based school run by the Illinois National Guard on the base.
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