Dr. Dre has partnered with a public school system in Los Angeles, where he and entrepreneur Jimmy Iovine will open a new high school in an area where other schools face closure by June 2025.
The music mogul and Iovine announced the opening of the Iovine and Young Center Academy in Inglewood, with the school set to open in August 2025 as part of the Inglewood Unified School District, the Los Angeles Times reported. Five other school closures are a possibility in the district due to its financial troubles.
“We wanted to start in the inner city, because Dre and especially me, I owe a lot to the inner city of Los Angeles and we intend to pay it back,” Iovine told the Times.
“We believe that this will differentiate them in the workforce and colleges,” he added, per FOX 11. “To go out and say you have an education in disciplinary learning, being able to collaborate with different disciplines and innovate is an advantage.”
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