Education
Knoxville Urban League ‘Shoes for School’ Shatters Records
New shoes will be on the feet of 1,270 children when they go back to school this week, thanks to the Knoxville Area Urban League, its sponsors and 300 volunteers.
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Akron Urban League Breaks Ground for Urban Farm
By Jennifer Conn, Akron reporter, cleveland.com, jconn@cleveland.com
AKRON, Ohio - The Akron Urban League will soon offer students opportunities to strengthen their financial skills by working, hands-on, with agriculture and farming.
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Springfield Urban League Hosts Literacy Initiative Night For Kids
by Fox Illinois News Team
Recently, the National Urban League in collaboration with the Columbia Urban League of South Carolina hosted a career exploration workshop at local elementary school.
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Tyrone Marshall's 'immeasurable' impact on north Omaha kids starts with the little things
By Erin Grace, World-Herald
Tyrone Marshall moves around the 3-point line like the second hand of a watch. Tick. Swoosh! Tick. Swoosh! Tick. Swoosh!
It’s a casual game of three-point for the handful of teenage boys playing with Marshall. For the Urban League’s director of education and youth development, though, it’s work.
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Bria Beckley seems like a typical college student: tired, frazzled perhaps, but determined. Scratch the surface and it becomes clear that Beckley’s path to Monroe Community College was a long and bumpy one.
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New education budget threatens dozens of low-performing Detroit schools with closure — again
By Koby Levin, www.chalkbeat.com
Dozens of struggling Detroit schools could face closure once again after Gov. Rick Snyder signed an education budget on Thursday that seeks to stiffen consequences for low-scoring schools.
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