Kevin McKinney for 8th Ward Alderman » Children http://mckinney4stl.com A Progressive Voice for the 8th Ward Fri, 20 Feb 2015 16:59:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 “It Takes A Village…” http://mckinney4stl.com/takes-village/ http://mckinney4stl.com/takes-village/#comments Wed, 11 Feb 2015 19:09:21 +0000 http://mckinney4stl.com/?p=499 A wise politician once said, “It takes a village to raise a child.” It starts with expanding youth opportunities around our schools, developing before and after-school activities and tutoring programs. We need to better fund summer job programs for teenagers. When the city of Chicago provided jobs to teens, crime dropped and kids learned valuable life skills at their first job. Sherman School sits vacant in the middle of our ward. While the building is no longer used as a ... read more

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