Foshay Learning Center: Case Study

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mpressive classes ever with a one hundred percent graduating class. Twenty two students were accepted into USC and three of those students chose to got to Harvard University, Columbia University, and Wesleyan University. I was so proud to see my peers success and to see the beauty of what an underrepresented community can accomplish. Yet these accomplishments are overlooked by the rest of the world because of the notorious stories people here. However Foshay Learning Center a gem of South Central Los Angeles will continue to disprove those stereotypes and will continue to be successful. The intelligence and diligence from students that attend this inner city high school will keep the beauty going. Foshay uplifts the idea that minorities who

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