Detroit to provide tuition-free college to DPS graduates
Source: Freep
Mayor Mike Duggan’s office said today that it will unveil details of the Detroit Promise program that will provide two years of free tuition for all Detroit high school graduates.
Duggan’s office said the new program has a permanent funding source for Detroit’s graduates to attend community college tuition free for two years.
The Detroit Promise is based on a program former Gov. Jennifer Granholm initiated in 2009, creating 10 Promise Zone communities in cities with high poverty rates. Detroit and school districts in Pontiac, Hazel Park, Saginaw, Lansing, Jackson, Benton Harbor, Baldwin and Battle Creek were eligible.
The goal of the program is to provide access to at least an associate’s degree for all children in those communities. It was based on the Kalamazoo Promise, the program launched in 2005 in which anonymous donors pay for tuition at state universities for graduates of that city’s public high schools
Read more: http://www.freep.com/story/news/education/2016/03/22/duggan-backs-bills-dps-plans-education-initiative/82115622/
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Where have I been hearing about a free PUBLIC college education lately?
And I thought we've been scolded that it's a, No We Can't, concept!
I'm not a fan of holding people as economic hostages to an area. Not in Detroit or anywhere else.
An education gives them more options, and they have the same right as the rest of us to use those options.
I left my home town as a young adult. A lot of people do. 
Lived there for a lot of years... 
