School as community center.

Renovating an old and unused high school in Minnesota was a critical piece in reviving the East Side of Saint Paul Saint Paul, city (1990 pop. 272,235), state capital and seat of Ramsey co., E Minn., on bluffs along the Mississippi River, contiguous with Minneapolis, forming the Twin Cities metropolitan area; inc. 1854. .

John A. Johnson John A. Johnson may refer to

John Albert Johnson - Minnesota politician
John Arthur Johnson - boxer

Achievement Plus Elementary School elementary school: see school. in Saint Paul, opened in 2000, is a state-of-the-art community school in an area where 2,500 manufacturing jobs were lost recently. These layoffs led to increasing child poverty. The school is also next to a new YMCA YMCA
in full Young Men's Christian Association

Nonsectarian, nonpolitical Christian lay movement that aims to develop high standards of Christian character among its members. , part of a complex that is a creative partnership between the city, the district, Ramsey County, the YMCA, the East Side Family Center and the Wilder Foundation.

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Title Annotation:	John A. Johnson Achievement Plus Elementary School
Author:	Pascopella, Angela
Publication:	District Administration
Article Type:	Brief Article
Geographic Code:	1U4MN
Date:	Jan 1, 2006
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