Early Education Program Gets Grant
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An early education program that targets children living in poverty receives a $1.4 million dollar grant from the John S. and James L. Knight
Foundation.

The Opportunity Project will use the grant to establish a program that helps teach social and emotional skills to three and four-year-old children.

The organization will lead a partnership that includes Child Start Inc., the Mental Health Association of South Central Kansas and the Wichita school district.

Knight Foundation Program Director Anne Corriston says the grant is its biggest outreach to date.

The Opportunity Project has about 150 children at its center in the Oaklawn neighborhood. About 35 more attend a center in north Wichita.

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