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Ground broken for Flint Cultural Center Academy free charter school

By Anne Trelfa on 06/27/2018 City News, City Schools

Come 2019, Flint will have a new free charter school. The groundbreaking ceremony for the new Flint Cultural Center Academy took place June 26 on the vacant land behind Sloan Museum and Flint Institute of Music. Projected to open in fall of 2019, the Flint Cultural Center Academy is a free charter school beginning with […]

An Active Advocate: CEO of non-profit preserves rights for Flint’s Hispanic residents

By Serena Maria Daniels on 12/17/2017 City News

Community outreach has always come naturally to San Juana “Juani” Olivares. That’s because it started at home. Her family moved to Flint from Mexico when she was 9 years old. Her father had relatives in the area. “We were told, ‘We’re going to come to Flint for vacation’ … but we didn’t come back,” says […]