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College Crusade Advisor Dwayne Clement celebrated recently with Crusader twins Richelene and Cindy Cesar, who are graduating from Mount Pleasant High School this spring. The Cesar twins entered Rhode Island College’s Pathways Through College program in January and have now earned 15 college credits toward their freshman year at RIC, where they will start classes [...]

Estefania Clavijo, a 7th-grade Crusader at Samuel Slater Junior High School in Pawtucket, was named Most Improved Student and was honored by the Pawtucket Red Sox this spring! On May 6, she participated in a recognition ceremony at McCoy Stadium along with dozens of other middle school and high school students from all over Rhode [...]

Providence middle school Advisors Mayamu Kamara and Kevin Montoya will attend the annual Children, Youth & Families at Risk Conference in Baltimore next week, July 19-21. Mayamu (Perry Middle School) and Kevin (Nathanael Greene Middle School) have been hosting afterschool science workshops for Crusaders this year in partnership with a CYFAR grant project at the [...]

On April 28, our high school Crusade Advisory Board gathered to discuss a new college guidebook published by the Center for Student Opportunity, in Bethesda, Md. CSO staff member Joseph Tavares, project coordinator for the College Access & Opportunity Guide, was on hand to run the focus group and to record feedback from Crusaders. The [...]