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Penn. school touts safety angle
June 19, 2010
BY CHERYL JACKSON Staff Reporter
Too violent in Chicago? Send your kids to boarding school in Pennsylvania.
That, in essence, is the pitch that leaders of a predominantly black boarding school about 40 miles west of Philadelphia are making. Pine Forge Academy -- where tuition is about $20,000 a year -- doesn't have any students from Chicago now. But it hopes to attract some.
With a Father's Day gala today, it's launching a campaign targeting Chicago, focusing on parents worried about their children's safety. Barbara W. Massey, executive director of the coed school's foundation, said the school's leaders decided to "take a look at places where the public school system was really, really struggling."
Penn. school touts safety angle
June 19, 2010
BY CHERYL JACKSON Staff Reporter
Too violent in Chicago? Send your kids to boarding school in Pennsylvania.
That, in essence, is the pitch that leaders of a predominantly black boarding school about 40 miles west of Philadelphia are making. Pine Forge Academy -- where tuition is about $20,000 a year -- doesn't have any students from Chicago now. But it hopes to attract some.
With a Father's Day gala today, it's launching a campaign targeting Chicago, focusing on parents worried about their children's safety. Barbara W. Massey, executive director of the coed school's foundation, said the school's leaders decided to "take a look at places where the public school system was really, really struggling."