Posts from — April 2009

Muskegon County has been designated as one of the state’s 10 Promise Zones, which will provide matching scholarship money to local students for a two-year college education.Promise Zones will be set up to capture one-half of the growth in education funds statewide. After two years, those funds, collected through property taxes and kept in an account similar to an escrow, will be distributed to the 10 qualifying communities to match private donations for college tuition. Click here to read the Muskegon Chronicle Article.

The Power of a Promise

Education and Economic Renewal in Kalamazoo

Michelle Miller-Adams In the first comprehensive account of the Kalamazoo Promise, Michelle Miller-Adams addresses both the potential and challenges inherent in place-based universal scholarship programs and explains why this unprecedented experiment in education-based economic renewal is being emulated by scores of cities and towns around the nation.