Paul Tough

Writer & Speaker

Sunday, April 4th, 2010

A Zone in Charleston?

From the Post and Courier in Charleston, S.C., a story about efforts to bring a Promise Neighborhood to that city:

The Charleston Promise Neighborhood would include Charleston’s East Side and Neck Area and extend into North Charleston, and its goal is to make that area indistinguishable from the rest of the county by breaking the cycle of poverty and improving education. The roughly 3,000 children who live in the zone and attend Sanders-Clyde, James Simons, Mary Ford and Chicora elementary schools would be the primary beneficiaries of its services and programs, which would begin at birth.


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