Pharrell Williams is setting up private schools for low income students
nme.comPharrell Williams‘ non-profit organisation is set to launch a number of private schools for low income students in his home state of Virginia.Through his YELLOW non-profit, Williams will open multiple schools, with the first confirmed to be in the town of Norfolk.“If the system is fixed and unfair, then it needs to be broken,” Williams said in a press release of the project, which will see winners chosen by lottery and is open to third, fourth and fifth graders as The Virginia Pilot reports.“We don’t want lockstep learning where so many kids fall behind; we want bespoke learning designed for each child, where the things that make a child different are the same things that will make a child rise up and take flight,” Pharrell added.“Residents.
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