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Five organizations to create new 'promise neighborhoods'
- 12-20-2011
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Blog by Alyson Klein/Education Week
More than two years ago, President Barack Obama pledged to scale up the Harlem Children's Zone's model of pairing education with health and other community services. Now that idea is finally bearing fruit: Five communities are getting up to $6 million each implementation grants to create new Promise Neighborhoods under the federal program of that name. The winners, announced by the U.S. Department of Education today, are: —Westminister Foundation. of Buffalo, N.Y.; which got $1.49 million — Berea College in Berea, Kentucky which will work with Clay, Jackson, and Owsley counties in that state; which got nearly $6 million —United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County in San Antonio, Texas, which got $4.3 million —California State University - East Bay in Hayward, Calif., which got nearly $4 million — Northside Academy, in Minneapolis. which got $5.6 million. (more...)
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