The Louisville Urban League will hold its 2012 Education Summit this weekend.President and CEO Ben Richmond says this year’s session will focus on raising awareness among African-American churches about the league’s 15K Degrees intiative.That’s the effort to have 15,000 African-Americans earn a college degree by the year 2020. It’s part of the community-wide 55,000 Degrees initiave.Richmond says African-American churches can play a major role in the effort if they’re given the proper resources. "We’re introducing a tool kit that we’re calling the 15K Faith Action took kit, showing churches and parents things that they can do to help grow a college-going culture," he said. The Urban League’s Education Summit begins at 9:00 Saturday morning at Central High School. Richmond says there will also be information available about applying for college and for student financial aid.
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