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Building Our Future One Child At A Time

There are two statistics that should stir the soul of anyone who cares about the future of Birmingham.  The first statistic is truly frightening.  47.7% of the youngsters who enter the ninth grade in Birmingham City schools will never graduate.  They drop out.  This horrible number looms even bigger when you consider that in Mountain Brook the dropout rate is just 4.7% and in Vestavia it is only 9.7%. 

Half the children of our city face a dead end future because they abandon their only chance to succeed – a good education. read more here

Jan 11 2009 12:26PM

Bell Seeks to Tackle City Unemployment

If elected, Bell hopes to tackle the city’s almost 12 percent unemployment rate by creating venture capital programs that will create businesses, “thus creating jobs for people who graduate from UAB as well as from other facilities around the city,” said Bell.  read full article.........  

Jan 10 2009 10:31PM

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