Just moments before a City Council hearing is scheduled to start on
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, this press release dropped into our inbox. Funny timing, don't you think?
MAYOR NUTTER, DR. ACKERMAN, VERIZON TO ANNOUNCE DONATION TO CHILDREN’S LEARNING INITIATIVE
WHO: Mayor Michael Nutter
Dr. Arlene Ackerman, Superintendent of Schools
Linda Katz, Executive Director of Children’s Learning Initiative
Gale Y. Given, President of Verizon Pennsylvania
WHERE: George Washington Elementary, 5th and Federal
WHEN: Thursday December 04, 2008
Tour of CLI classrooms 12:00 pm
Check Presentation 12:45 pm
WHAT: Mayor Nutter and Dr. Ackerman will attend a check presentation by Verizon to the Children’s Learning Initiative. Verizon is giving the Children’s Learning Initiative $25,000 to further their work to close the gap in literacy achievement between disadvantaged children and their more affluent peers.
: Verizon spokesman Harry Mitchell said the timing of the grant was a coincidence, noting the company donates about $1 million a year in the region. "It's just part of what we do."