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YES Prep Public Schools. / 29.6981918; -95.3842968. YES Prep Public Schools, Inc. [1] is a network of public, open-enrollment charter schools located in Greater Houston. Its headquarters are located at its Southside campus. [2] [3] The YES program is a university-preparatory program for grades K-12. [4]
Youth service refers to non-military, intensive engagement of young people in organized activity that contributes to the local, national, or world community. Youth service is widely recognized and valued by society, with minimal or no compensation to the server. Youth service also provides opportunities for youth development, youth voice and ...
The Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (KL-YES) Program was established in October 2002. The program provides scholarships for high school students from countries with significant Muslim populations to spend up to one academic year in the United States. [5] The first class of YES students arrived in the United States in 2003.
Operation Ceasefire. Operation Ceasefire (also known as the Boston Gun Project and the Boston Miracle [1]) is a problem-oriented policing initiative implemented in 1996 in Boston, Massachusetts. The program was specifically aimed at youth gun violence as a large-scale problem. The plan is based on the work of criminologist David M. Kennedy .
Ohio (/ oʊ ˈ h aɪ. oʊ / ⓘ oh-HY-oh) is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.Ohio borders Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to the east, West Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Indiana to the west, and Michigan to the northwest.
Winton Terrace is a Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA) project built for low income Cincinnati citizens. It was the first housing project in Cincinnati. It opened in 1940 as white only and did not take African American families. African Americans were not allowed until the late 1950s, but only because CMHA had built another white ...
Adoption. Same-sex couples allowed to adopt. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in the U.S. state of Ohio have most of the rights non- LGBT residents have. Same-sex sexual activity has been legal in Ohio since 1974, and same-sex marriage has been legally recognized since June 2015 as a result of Obergefell v. Hodges. [2]
Name. The organization's legal name is National Public Radio and its trademarked brand is NPR; it is known by both names. In June 2010, the organization announced that it was "making a conscious effort to consistently refer to ourselves as NPR on-air and online" because NPR is the common name for the organization and its radio hosts have used the tag line "This ... is NPR" for many years.