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Mount Vernon Youth Bureau to take 27 students on HBCU college tour under federally funded Ready for Life program
Summary
Executive Director Debbie Burrell Butler told council the Youth Bureau will take 27 students (and eight staff/chaperones) on a grant‑funded HBCU college tour visiting Bennett, Hampton, Maryland Eastern Shore and North Carolina A&T; the program is part of the federally funded Ready for Life grant and costs to the city are covered by the grant.
Debbie Burrell Butler, executive director of the Mount Vernon Youth Bureau, briefed the City Council on an upcoming HBCU college tour for local high school students funded through the federally supported Ready for Life program.
Burrell Butler said this is the program’s fifth year and that the bureau has taken 95 youth on college tours year‑to‑date when including an upcoming winter‑break trip that will bring 27 additional students. She told the council the trips are fully funded by the Ready for Life grant and that the city will not incur direct costs…
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