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Weather Submitted photo The Little Bit Foundation has partnered with Sumner High School to provide programming and partnerships that address the needs of students to enhance their education, college preparation, work-readiness skills and mentorship.
The Little Bit Foundation partners with historic Sumner High School to help serve as an overall source of support for students lacking resources By Wendy Todd Sumner High School, the first public high school for Black students west of the Mississippi, and boasts alumni including singer, Tina Turner, tennis player Arthur Ashe and actor Robert Guillaume, has been “adopted” by the nonprofit organization, The Little Bit Foundation. The high school, located in the once-thriving neighborhood of The Ville, serving nearly 300 students, has faced challenges including being on a closure list
in 2021 due to low enrollment, declining GPAs and attendance. But the community rallied around the history-making institution and convinced the St. Louis Public School Board to reconsider, and allow Sumner to develop an action plan to be instituted over three years to make improvements. The Little Bit Foundation has become part of that plan. The nonprofit that was founded in 2001, “works to eliminate barriers to learning and provides enrichment opportunities for under-resourced students in the St. Louis
region.” It provides programming and partnerships that address the needs of students to enhance their education, college preparation, work-readiness skills and mentorship. It also offers health education and intervention, serving as an overall source of support for students lacking resources. “We are very excited to expand our continuum of support to students in SLPS at this historic school and to help effect positive change,” said CEO of the organization, See ‘LITTLE BIT’ page 2
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