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Beverly Hills Courier announces its school district earned a News Literacy Project fellowship

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Beverly Hills Unified School District in California has been accepted to the News Literacy Project District Fellowship Program, a two-year grant that provides funding, professional support and resources for school systems that want to design and implement plans to teach news literacy. Beverly Hills joins school districts across the country, including the nearby Los Angeles Unified School District. NLP’s Ebonee Otoo, Senior Vice President of Educator Engagement, explains that the program’s goal is for students to graduate from high school skilled in news literacy.

Read the article in the Beverly Hills Courier here. Read more about the district fellowship here.

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