Pearl, a Richmond company behind an all-in-one tutor management platform, is partnering with the Urban League chapters of Greater Richmond and Hampton Roads on a program that will employ hundreds of students at four historically Black colleges and universities as tutors and mentors to middle and high school students.
Pearl said it will initially support tutoring for nearly 1,500 students in the Hampton City School District and Petersburg City Public Schools over the next two years with plans to expand the program to schools in Richmond and “other districts in underserved communities.”
The participating HBCUs include Norfolk State University, Hampton University, Virginia State University and Virginia Union University.
The program has earned the endorsement of Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who said in a statement the initiative is “the kind of collaborative, inventive partnership we want to see across the commonwealth to support our students.”
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