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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Fran Spielman

$1B scholarship program for CPS students and their parents is key to stopping violence, Hope Chicago CEO Janice Jackson says

A nonprofit’s ambitious, $1 billion plan to send thousands of students and their parents to college or trade school is ultimately about stopping the unrelenting gang violence plaguing Chicago, former Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson said Friday.

After leaving her pressure-cooker job last year, Jackson signed on as CEO of Hope Chicago, the nonprofit founded by Pete Kadens and Ted Koenig to fully fund post-secondary education for two generations of needy kids.

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