Drive west from downtown Cincinnati, over the railroad tracks that snake beneath the 8th Street Viaduct, and you’ll find a little slice of Appalachia, nestled between the Ohio River and the steep slopes of Price Hill. When coal mining jobs in Kentucky and West Virginia declined after World War II, hundreds of families came to Cincinnati for factory work. Many eventually settled in a small neighborhood of brick row houses now known as Lower Price Hill.

I first visited the neighborhood on assignment for Marketplace, public radio’s daily business and economics program. I was reporting on Cincinnati’s efforts to close the achievement gap between poor children and more advantaged students by fighting the effects of poverty. Lower Price Hill’s Oyler School is part of a growing national movement to help poor children succeed by meeting their basic health, social, and nutritional needs at school.

For the rest of the June 16 article by AMY SCOTT, MARKETPLACE, go to: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/oyler-school/

In addition, the PBS News Hour aired stories on Oyler on June 15 and 16:

June 15 (36:51-45:00)

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/ep...pisode-june-15-2015/

June 16 (starts 43:19) Profiles Raven Gibbins (ist in family to graduate)

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/ep...pisode-june-16-2015/

To see a 4-minute video of the new documentary about Oyler School (Choose The Story on the top navigation bar):

http://www.oylerdocumentary.com/home.html