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New school helps struggling families
Posted: 05.01.2011 at 4:05 PM
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KANSAS CITY, MO (AP) --
New help is coming to struggling families through a school in one of the poorest, crime-ridden neighborhoods in Kansas City.
An office that provides training and work experience to welfare recipients has opened at King/Weeks Elementary School - part of a national push for schools to provide a range of social services beyond education.
The school is located in the 64130 area code, which The Kansas City Star profiled two years ago as the home to more convicted murderers than any other ZIP code in Missouri.
It also has the highest population of residents receiving assistance under the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. Almost 840 families receive the financial help in 64130 and the neighboring 64127 ZIP codes.
The nonprofit Local Investment Commission is operating the office.
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