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- To launch and support student newspapers and related media in high schools located in low-income communities in and around Los Angeles;
- To provide students a school-wide platform for critical thinking and self-expression, in which they can explore and challenge both their schools and their communities without fear of censorship;
- To increase a sense of school-wide pride, community and belonging;
- To provide an opportunity for exploration of journalism as a potential career;
- To fund research measuring the impact of journalism curricula on students’ writing and critical thinking skills, thus providing a basis for expansion of such curricula as a core element of all secondary school English Language Arts programs.
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