Kalamazoo Promise

Upjohn Institute Researcher Michelle Miller-Adams spends a lot of her time examining how the Kalamazoo Promise is working and how other communities are…

The Kalamazoo Promise made a big announcement yesterday.For nine years the program has paid college tuition for Kalamazoo Public School graduates – if…

The Kalamazoo Promise has brought more than a dozen private Michigan colleges into the program that pays tuition for graduates of the Kalamazoo Public…

The Learning Network of Greater Kalamazoo was launched in 2011 as a collaborative effort to get every child in Kalamazoo County ready for school, college…

Western Michigan University launched the Community Empowerment Center last year to address the issue of poverty. Interim Executive Director Teresa Bingman…

Western Michigan University launched the Community Empowerment Center in 2013. The center's interim executive director Teresa Bingman says the statistics…

Kalamazoo Communities in Schools has launched a three-year, $4.5-million campaign to fund its operations. CIS Executive Director Pam Kingery and the…

In a week long series the Kalamazoo Gazette finds there has been a significant drop in juvenile crime in Kalamazoo County since 2008. But the series also…

For the last eight years researcher Michelle Miller-Adams has been examining the impact of the Kalamazoo Promise and how other communities have launched…

The President of the national group Communities in Schools says the Kalamazoo Promise is potentially “a game changer.” Dan Cardinali was in Kalamazoo…