Hispanic group seeks to raise $100M, open 15 new charter schools – Chicago
Tagged: Chicago, IllinoisPosted on: November 14th, 2007
A Hispanic organization in Chicago is launching a fundraising campaign to help alleviate school overcrowding in Chicago. UNO is soliciting private funds to help build more than a dozen new public schools.
The United Neighborhood Organization, a group that seeks to empower Chicago’s Hispanic neighborhoods is now taking the not for profit’s educational involvement with charter schools a step further.
At an awards banquet Wednesday, they will announce their plan to relieve school overcrowding. UNO leaders say they plan to raise $100 million from the private sector in order to build charter schools in overcrowded Chicago neighborhoods. “*
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