Moving Out of Poverty

Racine Montessori School

Journey House in Milwaukee provides adult education, workforce readiness and community engagement to families experiencing hardship. Students at Racine Montessori School profiled one Journey House program that gives foster youth job readiness skills while helping rebuild the community.

Produced by Eli Lindsey, Naisbert Nyamatutu, Mallory Bertone, Isaac Wong, Imani Lewis. and Tysen Silverstein at Racine Montessori School in Racine, Wisconsin. Instruction provided by SRL Connected Educator Lisa Holewa. Station support provided by John Dollar and Ryan Hendricks at Wisconsin Public Television.

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Student Reporting Labs connect students with an innovative video journalism curriculum and a network of public broadcasting mentors to develop digital media, critical thinking and communication skills while producing original news reports from a youth perspective.

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American Graduate: Getting to Work, public media’s long-term commitment to supporting community-based solutions in education. Supported by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, more than 128 public radio and television stations have joined forces with more than 1,700 partners and at-risk schools across 48 states and one territory.

Major support is also provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Kauffman Foundation, the Lumina Foundation and the National Science Foundation.

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