Last year, 10,000 sixth and seventh graders from some of the highest poverty schools in Alabama were promised free community college and special mentoring by the state. Now, officials are recruiting parents of those students to join an initiative to fight poverty, empower communities, and stock labor pools with better-qualified and higher-earning applicants. (The Hechinger Report)
Madlin Mekelburg was a reporting fellow for the Tribune in 2015 and 2016. She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where she studied journalism and French. Madlin previously worked at the... More by Madlin Mekelburg
