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Partnership targets at-risk students
by Michael DeVault - posted E-mail Story E-mail Story | Print Story Print Story 
Some at risk students at one Ouachita Parish school will get much needed assistance this summer to improve their reading and math skills.

About 120 Riverbend Elementary School students in West Monroe will benefit from a summer educational program, thanks to $45,000 in grants from the Randy and Rosemary Ewing Foundation, Entergy and the City of West Monroe.

The summer literacy program will be conducted at Riverbend Community Center in partnership with the Ouachita Parish Schools.

School Board spokesman Aline Smead said the parish school system was excited to take part in the program because it is geared toward helping improve the reading and math skills of students in a community where students are most at risk for falling behind in reading and math.
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