OGDEN — Graduation day in the Ogden School District, and no one appreciates the importance of this day more than Deliah Romero.

“I got told many times that I wasn’t able to graduate and people looked at me and told me personally that I wasn’t going to make it, and that I wasn’t going to do anything, be anything, and I proved them wrong because I had support,” Romero said.

She and hundreds of other students, who likely would not have made it in the past, are now getting their diplomas, as part of a huge graduation turnaround in the Ogden School District.

“We had an issue with graduation rates, and we had to really take a look at the root cause of what it was,” said Superintendent Luke Rasmussen.

In 2016, graduation in Ogden was 68%. At George Washington High School the numbers were eve

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