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| Classroom alternative to crime culture |
| By New Orleans City Business |
| Published: 11/19/2007 |
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LOUSIANA - The war against crime in New Orleans has a new weapon — education. After the September 2006 Crime Summit, the New Orleans City Council provided $220,000 to fund the Tulane Towers Learning Center, a literacy and General Education Development preparatory program for non-violent offenders and members of the community. If people charged with low-level crimes such as drug possession are given the chance to earn their GEDs, it will open greater possibilities in their lives and stop them before they graduate to a more violent way of life, said Jamie Pena, coordinator of the Tulane Towers Learning Center. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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