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As Harlem Children's Zone moves to export its model nationwide, other city programs offer cautionary tales


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As Harlem Children s Zone moves to export its model nationwide, other city programs offer cautionary tales
Amadou Diallo, The Washington Post
Dec. 11, 2020
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Kwame Owusu-Kesse, CEO of Harlem Children s Zone, adjusts the uniform of S. Talla, an eighth-grader at the organization s Promise Academy I charter school.Harlem Children s Zone
Harlem Children s Zone, the renowned nonprofit organization providing social and academic support to low-income families in Central Harlem in New York, has announced an initiative to replicate its community-based model of family and educational services in six other large cities.
We believe the time is right to leverage our two decades of experience to advance cradle-to-career initiatives across the U.S., said Harlem Children s Zone CEO Kwame Owusu-Kesse, who said the cities - Oakland, Calif.; Minneapolis; Chicago; Detroit; Newark, and Atlanta - were selected because they had high ....

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