Robin Scholz
Head teacher Bill Keniston moves his charges along to the UI Library. Keniston's Campus Academy has six middle school students in its first year.
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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