Jonathan Oosting | Detroit News Lansing — Flint and up to four other Michigan communities with high child poverty rates could become “promise zones” to provide local students with tuition-free college under legislation sent Wednesday to Gov. Rick Snyder’s desk. The Michigan Senate approved the bill in a 35-2 vote, signing off on a final […]
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Flint Promise Zone legislation gets OK from Michigan House committee
By Ron Fonger | MLive.com FLINT, MI — Legislation to create a Flint Promise Zone has been passed by the Michigan House Education Reform Committee, another step in a new effort to help send more Flint students to college. The bill, sponsored by Senate Minority Leader Jim Ananich, D-Flint, is headed to the full state […]
Tom Gores, Consumers Energy pledge $2 million to send Flint kids to college
By Ron Fonger | MLive.com FLINT, MI — Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores and the Consumers Energy Foundation have pledged $2 million in seed money to start a Flint Promise program that could start awarding college scholarships to the graduating class of 2018. Matching $1-million commitments from Gores and Consumers were announced in a news […]