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via BlackAmericaWeb:COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer President Trump yesterday signed a bipartisan bill that will permanently provide more than $250 million a year to the nation’s historically black colleges and universities, along with dozens of other institutions that serve large shares of minority students. Michael Lomax, president and CEO of the United Negro College Fund, thanked Trump and […]

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via Wkyc: Yesterday it was announced that The State of Ohio will be cutting 1.5 million grant dedicated to educating and assisting the public in the prevention and spread of HIV/AIDS And with that being said, the city will not be able to provide information on assistance for HIV-AIDS or other sexually transmitted infections. CLICK […]

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The Cleveland Municipal Court is one of only ten in the nation to receive funding to implement a community court. The court announced Thursday that it was named a 2016 Community Court Grant Program winner. As part of the partnership between the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance and the Center for Court […]

In February, President Barack Obama announced an initiative to respond to the economic, employment, and educational disparities that young men of color face as they enter…

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  Shoppers, vendors and employees forced to bundle up at Cleveland’s West Side Market are hoping a solution to cold temperatures inside the market will soon be found. Cleveland Councilman Joe Cimperman believes he may have found an answer. Cimperman told NewsChannel5 he believes he found the funding need to improve conditions at the market. […]

National

In a campaign dominated by talk of high unemployment and soaring deficits, Mitt Romney’s threat to sack one particular government employee — Sesame Street’s Big Bird — has ruffled feathers. In an otherwise strong performance in the first presidential debate on Wednesday, Romney vowed to cut support for public television, saying he liked the tall […]

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It’s evident: A long history of chronic underfunding, classrooms with broken air conditioners and tattered library books have handicap many of the nation’s 105 historically black colleges and universities in their quest to deliver quality education and research. By 2020, black and Latino children are expected to comprise 50 percent of the nation’s students. Many […]

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The Cuyahoga County Board of Health has helped three local school districts secure Ohio Department of Transportation’s Safe Routes to School Program funding that will help promote safe physical activity for students. The program has awarded more than $600,000 in state funding to Brooklyn City Schools and East Cleveland City Schools, as well as engineering […]