Dakwon Temple, foreground left, and Jasmine Dukes, foreground right, seventh-graders at Friendship Preparatory Academy in Baltimore, Maryland, listen during Ms. Shayla Shelton's language arts class, Thursday, April 12, 2012..(NOTE: the girl in the background is Jazmean McFadden, but I forgot to get the boy's name sitting next to her)..Baltimore City "turnaround" school Friendship Preparatory Academy Elementary and Middle, have benefited from the federal School Improvement Grant Program thanks to a partnership with the D.C.-based Friendship Public Charter School organization (NOTE: Friendship Prep is NOT a charter school, according to the vice principal). The school, which serves 98% of the students reduced and free lunches, used the grant money for improvements like buying technology, installing white boards, painting the hallways, replacing flooring, and paying for classroom libraries...Matt Roth For Education Week
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