Kansas City’s mayor, police chief and schools superintendent joined forces, in an opinion article in the Kansas City Star, to announce a new zone in the city designed to emulate the Harlem Children’s Zone:
Kansas City’s Zone Two-7: Anchor of Hope is named for its concentration on the 64127 ZIP Code. The area was selected for myriad reasons. The most important is that the children and their families need high levels of support. Our efforts received good news recently when we learned that the federal funding for these types of projects, called Promise Neighborhoods, passed the U.S. Senate in an omnibus spending bill. Our team will now concentrate on applying for and winning a portion of this federal grant money.
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