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did u 4get 2 mention..?
I actually think I read about Star' and a few of her classmates in another newspaper. If she's the young lady I think she is, she's enrolled in a half-private-half public program. Bill Clinton's Sec. of Education, Richard Riley, worked with President Clinton and the NAACP, around the time of beginning of the financial woes of Traditional Black Colleges. The plan was to find a way to enable Above-Average Teens from America's inner cities to go to Ivy League Universities. Teens that would probably never get the oppertunity to go otherwise. The program was a win-win. Intelligent inner city teens got to move on to Harvard, Yale, Brown, Columbia etc... with SOMEONE HOLDING THEIR HAND EVERY STEP OF THE WAY. (FAIR???) The Ivy League Institutions GOT FREE $$$ FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT! (AGAIN, FAIR???) It obviously died out during the Bush years, but a friend of mine who works at Brown, said Obama and his Secretary of Ed. Arne Duncan started it up again, and plan to expand it with the help of the NAACP and UNCF.
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