The Village Blog
A blog about creating greater opportunities for children and families in low-income neighborhoods to access education and opportunities to lift themselves out of poverty, realize stability and to build better futures. It takes a village to help a child succeed.
It's got to be Derek Jeter, is what I thought when I heard a few years ago that a philanthropist who wanted to remain anonymous was donating millions of dollars to support the Kalamazoo Promise.
The Promise provides college tuition for residents of that west Michigan city who graduate from high school and head off to a college. An incredibly generous donor, supported by some other people with substantial cash to spare, anted up enough money to cover the cost of tuition at any Michigan community college or university for Kalamazoo high school graduates -- in perpetuity, according to administrators. Read More »
The Promise provides college tuition for residents of that west Michigan city who graduate from high school and head off to a college. An incredibly generous donor, supported by some other people with substantial cash to spare, anted up enough money to cover the cost of tuition at any Michigan community college or university for Kalamazoo high school graduates -- in perpetuity, according to administrators. Read More »
I overheard a friend of a friend recount an interesting story about the difficulty he and his wife were having trying to provide a quality education for their child.
They live in suburban Detroit, and wanted their child to go to a school in a well-regarded district. The problem was their district of choice was not the one they lived in, but rather a district with a top-rated high school that happened to be located a few municipalities away.
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They live in suburban Detroit, and wanted their child to go to a school in a well-regarded district. The problem was their district of choice was not the one they lived in, but rather a district with a top-rated high school that happened to be located a few municipalities away.
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When Pontiac native Nathaniel Abraham entered a guilty plea recently to felony drug possession charges I wondered, what if? What if he had gotten the help he needed early in his life, would he have ended up on another path.
Abraham made international news over a decade ago when, at age 11, he was the youngest person in Michigan to ever be tried as an adult for murder. He was charged in the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Ronnie Green, and ultimately convicted of second-degree murder. The judge in the case sentenced Abraham to serve his time in a juvenile facility, a controversial move at the time. He was released in 2007, after turning 21, and a year later finds himself facing up to 20 years in prison. He is to be sentenced later this month, and he will most certainly serve his time with adults.
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Abraham made international news over a decade ago when, at age 11, he was the youngest person in Michigan to ever be tried as an adult for murder. He was charged in the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Ronnie Green, and ultimately convicted of second-degree murder. The judge in the case sentenced Abraham to serve his time in a juvenile facility, a controversial move at the time. He was released in 2007, after turning 21, and a year later finds himself facing up to 20 years in prison. He is to be sentenced later this month, and he will most certainly serve his time with adults.
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