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  • Community building: Chicago experiment links libraries and apartments

    Eva Fedderly

    October 24, 2018 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    When a need for more libraries and more affordable housing arose in Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel pursued a plan to combine the two. The result is a partnership between the Chicago Housing Authority and the Chicago Public Library system. Despite some concern among neighborhood residents, the solution is largely seen as a creative approach as well as a creative use of funding and land space. Mixed-use developments are becoming more popular around the world, and this next iteration will benefit many types of Chicago residents.

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  • In a New Orleans school, improving outcomes one student at a time

    Eva Fedderly

    April 25, 2018 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    Opened in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans' NET charter schools acknowledges that "many young people continue to struggle with issues that are greater than traditional models can support." Serving mainly students who have been diagnosed with trauma or post-traumatic stress disorder, NET provides students with full-time counselors and third-party resources, such as internships and psychiatrists.

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