Heart of gold: Pharrell Williams Opens Private Schools to Those Less Fortunate
- US musician Pharrell Williams is doing great things and is opening up a network of private schools in his home town
- The schools will be located in Virginia and will be there to serve people who have a low income but deserve a quality education
- Students of the school will be free to live wherever in the city and won't have to pay for tuition fees at all
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Pharrell's non-profit organisation, Yellow, is expanding its education branch to include a handful of private schools in his homeland of Virginia that serve low-income pupils. He'll open the first school in Norfolk, Virginia's Ghent neighbourhood, which is near to his hometown of Virginia Beach.
Children in Grades 3 through 5 will be able to enrol at the Yellowhab school. Tuition will be free for at least the first year with costs covered by charitable donations. The skills Pharrell's foundation gained while running youth summer programmes are being put to good use.
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“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," said Pharell in a statement, according to Complex.
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The Walton Family Foundation, one of the school's early supporters, has spent millions to fund and promote charter schools over the last two decades, according to Pilot Online.
Williams' school will let youngsters whose parents can't afford private schools enrol in one if that's what they want because it's tuition-free. Yellowhab students are free to live wherever in the city. The location of the school will be announced later by the organisation.
Mark Zuckerberg says that his staff should continue working from home
In other world celebrity news, Briefly News reported that Mark Zuckerberg encouraged Facebook employees to continue working from home.
Facebook chief executive officer (CEO) Mark Zuckerberg has encouraged employees to continue working from home even after the Covid-19 pandemic is over.
This comes after rival big tech firms Apple and Google recently reversed pandemic working conditions, telling staff to return to the office in the coming months.
According to BBC, the company told its employees whose role can be done from home that they can request remote work.
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