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Poster for the Illinois branch of the National Youth Administration, 1937. "Illinois" is misspelled. The National Youth Administration (NYA) was a New Deal agency sponsored by Franklin D. Roosevelt during his presidency. It focused on providing work and education for Americans between the ages of 16 and 25. [1]
March 17 - President Roosevelt holds a press conference in which he speaks against a congressional movement to abolish the 40 hour work week. [105] Roosevelt also states his intent to ask Congress the following day for an increase of seventeen and a half billion toward army warplanes.
March 17 is the 76th day of the year (77th in ... National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to ...
March of Dimes is a United States nonprofit organization that works to improve the health of mothers and babies. [1] The organization was founded by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1938, as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, to combat polio. The name "March of Dimes" was coined by Eddie Cantor.
Hogan, David. "Education and the making of the Chicago working class, 1880–1930." History of Education Quarterly 18.3 (1978): 227–270. Krueger, Stacey. "Fighting and Building for Liberatory Education: A Conjunctural Analysis of Chicago's Alternative Schools" (PhD dissertation, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2022).
Many of the women participating in Chicago's She Ro intervention program have lost a loved one to gun violence. ... Hamilton said that last year, 90 women in the area were killed by gun violence ...
Senn High School is rated a 4 out of 10 by GreatSchools.org, a national school quality information site. [7] GreatSchools’ Summary Rating is based on four of the school’s themed ratings: the Test Score Rating, Student or Academic Progress Rating, College Readiness Rating, and Equity Rating and flags for discipline and attendance disparities at a school.
After hundreds of teenagers and young adults descended on the Loop in downtown Chicago over ... April 17, 2023 at 11:15 AM ... It “is not constructive to demonize youth who have otherwise been ...