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Tackling poverty along with reading and arithmetic

May 10, 2012
Cincinnati's Oyler School, is not just a center for learning. It is a Community Learning Center that brings together social services and education under one roof.
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Until eight years ago, almost nobody from Lower Price Hill in Cincinnati finished high school, much less went to college. Then the residents of Lower Price Hill decided to turn their old neighborhood school into a preschool-12 community learning center. But can a school really transform a neighborhood battered by crime and poverty? Follow our yearlong coverage of the Oyler Community Learning Center.

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