USA Today – Annysa Johnson and Kevin Crowe
“MPS is one of 30 districts around the country selected to take part in the Success Mentors program, part of the White House’s My Brothers’ Keeper initiative launched in 2014 to address opportunity gaps faced by boys and young men of color. It comes as researchers and the U.S. Department of Education are beginning to understand the extent to which students at every grade level and in every type of school — urban, suburban, rural — are absent an inordinate number of days, and the detrimental effects that can have on their education and path in life.”(more)