Al Jazeera: Where students go to college for free
The cost of college is becoming an insurmountable hurdle for many families around the country–but not so for the residents of Kalamazoo, a small, vibrant city of 75,000 in southwestern Michigan, reports Al Jazeera. Since the program’s launch, about 2,800 Kalamazoo Public School graduates have taken advantage of Promise funds, totaling $50 million thus far–all paid by anonymous donors without the aid of an endowment or other fund-raising efforts. And there’s no end in sight for the Promise–it’s guaranteed by the donors to continue in perpetuity.
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