Summary
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.See the full content of this document
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Program in N.O. Curbs Criminal Path
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 T...
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