Illinois Girls in the NEWS!!

Both the Illinois Princess, Imani Muse, and the Illinois Jr. Preteen, Isis Graham, are not only LEARN scholars - they were also featured in their school newspaper for their achievements with National American Miss this summer.

Take a look at how Imani and Isis are making headlines in their community:

We’d like to salute two LEARN Charter School students, Isis Graham (5th Grade) andImani Muse (1st Grade) who competed in the National American Miss Illinois Pageant over the Labor Day Weekend. The sisters won two Illinois titles. Isis walked away with the Cover Girl title for the Jr. Pre-Teen Division and Imani won the Miss Illinois Overall Queen title for the Princess Division. They both will compete for National Titles at the National Pageant in California over the Thanksgiving Break! They will start their year off with their first volunteer activity at the UNCF Walk on September 19th.

A round of applause to these girls, and to their mom, Leslie Bates, for telling us about it!

Dont forget to let your school or district know about your accomplishments this summer at NAM - regardless of it you took home the crown of not. Its not uncommon for schools to feature your outstanding accomplishments in their newspaper, their bulletins, morning announcements, etc. AND definitely let them know you are headed to nationals, before you go (for those of you are going) they often usually post it a GOOD LUCK on the sign outside of the school!!