Chicago public schools announces a plan to use mentoring to stem tide of youth violence

From the Chicago Tribune:
The Superintendent of Chicago Public Schools, Ron Huberman, has announced that he has identified the 200 students most likely to end up shot and wants to connect them with full-time mentors and part-time jobs as a strategy to stem the violence which last year alone claimed the lives of 34 Chicago youth.

The plan, which is inspiring heated debate, calls for the use of federal stimulus funding to essentially hire paid mentors who will be assigned to four students and will act as part role model, part counselor and part truant officer.

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