City’s grant to Young Voices could be shifted

PAWTUCKET Though school officials say they’re cutting ties with student advocacy organization Young Voices over an unauthorized student survey at Tolman High School, a new city grant approved for the organization this year is still in limbo.

Ed Soares, manager for Pawtucket’s Community Development Block Grant program, said Monday that Young Voices applied for and was set to receive a new $15,000 grant “to continue to implement their youth leadership training programming at Tolman and expand their role and presence at Shea (High School).”

The city’s entire CDBG funding recommendation has been submitted to the U.S. Young Voices received about $22,000 from the school department over four years of conducting a program designed to give students a voice in their education.