Youngsters, parents urged to get behind Project GRAD ; Former NFL star knows program works Final Edition

Project GRAD - Graduation Really Achieves Dreams - seeks to increase students' test scores and rates of graduation and college enrollment through family support services and programs that address reading, math, management and discipline. "If this community wraps itself around Project GRAD...

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Published inThe Knoxville news-sentinel
Main Author Matthew S.L. Cate and Jennifer Lawson, News-Sentinel staff writers
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Knoxville, Tenn Gannett Media Corp 16.10.2002
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Summary:Project GRAD - Graduation Really Achieves Dreams - seeks to increase students' test scores and rates of graduation and college enrollment through family support services and programs that address reading, math, management and discipline. "If this community wraps itself around Project GRAD kids, how are they going to fail?" [LeRoy Thompson] asked. (Color) Jaclyn Brown, 14, a student at Austin-East Magnet High School, cheers for members of the Austin-East band Tuesday night at the Project Grad Walk for Success Rally at Fulton High School. News-Sentinel photo by Saul Young; DIGITAL PHOTO - 1015GRAD.RALLY.1.SY