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Pilot Program Aimed at Helping Suspended Students

By: Bill Palmer
Updated: February 18, 2013
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February 18th, 2013

A new pilot program at two city schools starts tomorrow.
It's aimed at helping students suspended from school.

Community activist Sonya Arrington is starting the program.
Arrington, along with the Booker T. Washington Center and the Erie School District, are working together to start the pilot program.

Students who are in the sixth, seventh or eigth grades at Wayne and Roosevelt are able to attend Arrington's program.

Parents can either contact the Booker T. Washington Center, the school district or Sonya at 572-9567.


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ALL students suspended, SHOULD be attending some kind of schooling while suspended!! The shouldn't get off scott free, because that is WHY some want to get suspended anyway...to get out of school! Make it mandatory that they DO have to go to an alternate schooling!!

Micheline M. February 19, 2013 at 12:22 pm

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