101. Philanthropy Magazine @ The Philanthropy Roundtable The merchant, reluctant at first, agrees and finds a place for the boy at a Christian boarding school in mississippi. In the process, he becomes one of the http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/magazines/1997/fall/greatgrants.html

Back Issues Archive Fall 1997 Subscribe Renew Subscription Great Grants Recent benefactors and programs of note Grantor: The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Chatham, New York Grantee: Operation Exodus Inner City Amount: $5,000 A NEW YORK CITY DIAMOND MERCHANT IS APPROACHED by the distraught mother of a child in his Sunday school class. The boy, not yet out of sixth grade, is already being pressured to join the local gangs, and his mother wants help getting her son out of their Washington Heights neighborhood. The merchant, reluctant at first, agrees and finds a place for the boy at a Christian boarding school in Mississippi. In the process, he becomes one of the pioneers of the privately funded school choice movement, and now has more than 100 children on his waiting list. But where many of the modern school choice programs have the benefit of strong corporate or foundation support, Luis Iza's program, Operation Exodus Inner City, Inc., is run out of a corner of his Manhattan business office on a budget of less than $100,000 per year. That budget, moreover, is raised almost entirely from local churches and parents of the program's students, who are so committed to getting their kids out of the local schools that they part with a sizable portion of their meager incomes. This year they are getting some help from a $5,000 grant from the New Jersey-based Hyde and Watson Foundation, which will enable the program to establish a computer lab. Since its inception in 1988, Operation Exodus has assisted over 130 kids, most of them from Dominican families, by placing them outside their neighborhoods of Washington Heights and the South Bronx in over thirty different schools both around New York City and the nation. While the other students in their neighborhoods see only 30 percent of their peers graduate from high school in four years, students in the Exodus program do so at the astonishing rate of 98 percent, according to Iza. In fact, only two students have ever dropped out of school after enrolling in the program. All of the program's high school graduates have entered college, where 70 percent have graduated or are still enrolled.

102. Colorado State University - Office Of The President Beginning in the late 1880s, Indian boarding schools were started throughout the Visits by family members to boarding schools were rare because of the http://www.president.colostate.edu/index.asp?page=john_lincoln

103. Trail Of The Hellhound: Sonny Boy Williamson Sonny Boy Williamson died May 25, 1965, at his boarding house. Aleck Miller s grave is near Tutwiler, mississippi, just off Highway 49. http://www.cr.nps.gov/delta/blues/people/sonnyboy_williamson.htm

Back to the beginning . . . Sites Schools People ... Additional Info Aleck "Rice" Miller, a.k.a. "Sonny Boy Williamson" Delta School According to his gravestone, Rice Miller was born March 11, 1897, in the country between Glendora and Tutwiler, Mississippi. He was raised by his mother Millie Ford and stepfather Jim Miller, and acquired the nickname "Rice" as a young child. Miller, who was interested in music as a toddler, taught himself to play harmonica at the age of five. Interestingly, W.C. Handy heard early blues played on a train platform in Tutwiler about this same time. Miller became quite adept at the harmonica, playing spiritual music at parties for tips as a child. As he grew older, he began playing spirituals at schools and street corners as "Little Boy Blue." During the 1920s he left his parents' home and began to hobo, playing blues to support himself. Miller hoboed through Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Missouri during the 1920s, playing levee and lumber camps, juke joints, and parties. He claimed to have made unissued test recordings in the late 1920s, but these have never been found. During the 1930s Miller teamed up with guitarists

104. Bethel Boys Academy : Mississippi Military School Christian Boarding Schools Bethel Boys Academy Military School Troubled Teens Youth Program for struggling teens at risk teens Specialty School for Troubled Teens Military school http://www.familyfirstaid.org/bethel.html

Residential Treatment Centers Boarding Schools Wilderness Programs Boot Camps ... Pre-Teen Troubled Teen Topics Teen Drug Abuse Teen Depression Teen Suicide Teen ADD / ADHD ... Site Map Bethel Boys Academy : For over 25 years Bethel Academy has been on a mission to rescue at risk, defiant, rebellious violent teen boys from the downward spiral of destructive behavior and habits. We are a military discipline, Christian based Boys Academy. Located in south Mississippi in a small town rustic setting, Bethel Academy offers retreat from so many of the distractions modern teen boys face today. We believe depression, alcohol use, drug use and other common teen problems can be traced directly to poor self esteem, materialism and situation ethics. Learning disorders are a great challenge for the modern teen. ADD, ADHD and others slow the learning process. We have a focused and concentrated Academics program that creates an environment of structure and balance to help with these learning disorders. Our strong but loving discipline coupled with academic excellence and a genuine spiritual experience can bring life change to a wayward teen. Please consider us as a way to bring lasting change, structure and definition to the life of your child! We have prepared our website so as to introduce you to who we are and what we do in bringing about lasting change for you troubled teen.

105. Bethel Alternative Boarding School - Bethel, Alaska / AK - School Information Bethel Alternative boarding School Bethel, Alaska / AK - school information. Be the first to review this school - tell other parents what you think. http://www.greatschools.net/modperl/browse_school/ak/576

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106. Shawnigan Lake School Admissions Information Form Canada s boarding School, Vancouver Island Private boarding School British Columbia boarding School British Columbia boarding School http://www.sls.bc.ca/informationform.html

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