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PARENTS
UNITED TO RELEASE REPORT ON D.C.
HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC PROGRAMS AND CREATION
OF NEW FOUNDATION TO PROVIDE
SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDING
Parents
United for the D.C. Public Schools will hold a press conference
on Tuesday morning July 16, 2002 to release an updated report on the enormous
deficiencies in D.C. high school athletic programs, facilities and
funding. The report --- Unlevel Playing Fields II --- is a sequel
to an earlier report issued last year.
As
part of the press conference Parents United will also be announcing
the formal establishment of the Level Playing Fields Foundation,
a new grant-making body created to make supplemental grant funding
available to athletic departments at participating D.C. high schools.
Among the board members of the new foundation who will be attending
the press conference are: Terry Lierman, Abe Pollin,
Jay Silberman and Iris Toyer.
In
addition to the Level Playing Fields Foundation board members, those
attending the press conference will include: Mary Levy, Parents
United’s budget analyst, several Parents United board members, and
a number of D .C. student athletes and their parents.
The
press conference will be held in the Press Room of the MCI
Center, 601
F St. NW, beginning at 9:30 a.m. The Press Room entrance is located
on the 6th Street
side of the MCI
Center next to the loading
dock.
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