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An $18.9 million grant will help create 12 new high schools modeled after the innovative and successful Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Chicago. (Good News).

An $18.9 million grant will help create 12 new high schools modeled after the innovative and successful Cristo Rey Jesuit High School Cristo Rey Jesuit High School can refer to any of the following Cristo Rey Network high schools in the United States:
  • Cristo Rey Jesuit High School, Chicago, Illinois (1996)
  • Cristo Rey Jesuit High School, Baltimore, Maryland (2007)
 in Chicago, which combines college-prep courses with part-time jobs that help students pay for their tuition.

The money will fund schools in New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 Cleveland, Denver, Tucson, Boston, and elsewhere. It also will help the four existing Cristo Rey-type schools in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. ; Portland, Oregon; Austin, Texas; and Chicago.

The grant is from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, philanthropic institution founded in 1994 by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, to improve the lives of the poor throughout the world, primarily through grants for projects relating to global health care,  and the Cassin Educational Initiative.
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