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Scientology-linked project to get scrutiny

Title: Scientology-linked project to get scrutiny
Date: Saturday, 10 February 2001
Publisher: Boston Herald
Author: Steve Marantz
Main source: studytech.org

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A top Menino administration official said yesterday that a literacy project with ties to the Church of Scientology will be closely monitored in its use of city funds to help school-age children read. The group, H.E.L.P. Boston, received a $1,000 grant from the city's Safe Neighborhood Fund. The grant was approved by officials who knew of the program's connection to the controversial Scientology movement. But they apparently failed to tell Mayor Thomas M. Menino, who in a statement released by his ... [Read the rest at studytech.org]