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More than $2 million federal dollars will fund the placement of volunteers at local schools to help motivate students. U.S. Reps. Joaquin Castro and Greg Casar recently announced that they'd secured the AmeriCorps funding for the San Antonio chapter of the nonprofit City Year. The funding will place 58 Student Success Coaches on the campuses of eight local schools to help kids improve their literacy, math, and social skills. The coaches will wear red City Year jackets on campus so students can recognize them.