First-year school takes inclusive approach

The six students of the Campus Academy gathered shortly after 8 a.m. recently in the basement of McKinley Foundation on the University of Illinois campus.

The students, all dressed in dark-colored dress pants and jackets and most with ties, are enrolled at a new home-school middle school for black boys. Here is an account of one day this month at the new Champaign school:

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