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Expanding Catie’s Closet in Springfield
City Connects Coordinators always ask the same important questions: What do students need? How can Coordinators help? How can community partners help? Asking these questions at the Indian Orchard Elementary School in Springfield, Mass., led to a productive partnership. “We’ve collected clothing donations on our own, and we still do,” Shandria McCoy says. McCoy and Alaina Lyman…
The Weekly Connect 3/20/23
Here’s the new edition of The Weekly Connect. Check it out and sign up to have it delivered to your inbox! Here are some of the things we’ve been reading about this week: Despite national efforts, tutoring only reaches a fraction of students. Rural areas lag in funding to help homeless students. Rhode Island uses federal…
Teaming up to connect students to sports
The pandemic didn’t just shut down schools, it also shut down team sports. Now, Joy Richmond-Smith and Brad Maloon, two City Connects Coordinators in Salem, Mass., are working together to bring sports back to students. “Last year, I connected several kids to the Jr. Celtics program,” Richmond-Smith, the coordinator at the Saltonstall School says. “They…
The Weekly Connect 3/13/23
Here’s the new edition of The Weekly Connect. Check it out and sign up to have it delivered to your inbox! Here are some of the things we’ve been reading about this week: Black and Latino children often don’t receive Early Intervention services. Because of different federal definitions of homelessness, many kids are falling through the…
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