Though the Yurok Tribe was the lead agency, 17 other community partners worked together to obtain a $30 million federal grant dedicated to building a “cradle-school-career pathway project” in Del Norte County.
Those partners include Del Norte Unified School District and the County Office of Education, the Del Norte Child Care Council, First 5 Del Norte and the College of the Redwoods, according to the Yurok Tribe’s education director, Jim McQuillen.
“It was a true partnership,” McQuillen told co...