Harlem Children’s Zone times 20
Tags: Franklin McKinley Children's Zone, Geoffrey Canada, Harlem Children's Zone,John PorterPosted in Preschool, Program innovation
Non-profits and school districts nationwide will soon vie for $200 million that President Obama envisions as seeding the next generation Harlem Children’s Zones. A local school superintendent and organizers of the Santee neighborhood in south San Jose, a mix of poor Vietnamese and Hispanic immigrant families, hope to be one of them. They’ve lined up philanthropic dollars and persuaded agencies to come together to form their own Children’s Zone.
The Harlem Children’s Zone is matrix of interwoven schools and social services for children and adults, spanning from cradle to college, that its visionary, Geoffrey Canada, hopes will wipe out intergenerational poverty in New York City’s famous uptown neighborhood.
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The Harlem Children’s Zone is matrix of interwoven schools and social services for children and adults, spanning from cradle to college, that its visionary, Geoffrey Canada, hopes will wipe out intergenerational poverty in New York City’s famous uptown neighborhood.
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