From the Savannah Morning News, a report on Mayor Otis Johnson’s effort to construct a “cradle-to-college” youth program in Savannah:
The effort, lead by Youth Futures and the mayor, has been the subject of planning sessions by local groups and agency leaders for a year. The unnamed local program, patterned after the successful Harlem Children’s Zone, has identified the local Rotary clubs for the first piece of 6 months to kindergarten and is seeking community help to complete the process.
Planners have pledged to pursue the effort locally with or without the Promise Neighborhood designation.
“We are not trying to replicate the Harlem Children’s Zone here in Savannah, only the success,’’ Chisolm said.
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