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Jacksonville’s Success Zone

In today’s Jacksonville, Florida, Times-Union, an editorial about the Harlem Children’s Zone, Whatever It Takes and the city’s new “Success Zone”: Late in the new book describing the Harlem Children’s...

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A Palm Beach Zone?

In the Palm Beach Post, an editorial urging civic leaders to create a Promise Neighborhood in West Palm Beach: The Obama administration wants to help 20 cities adopt anti-poverty programs modeled on...

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Promise in Pensacola?

In today’s Pensacola News-Journal, columnist Reginald Dogan writes about “Whatever It Takes,” Geoffrey Canada and the possibility of a Promise Neighborhood in Pensacola: I’m reading about Canada’s...

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Promise Neighborhood News

Newspapers around the country are reporting on local efforts to replicate the Harlem Children’s Zone and to take advantage of the Obama administration’s Promise Neighborhood initiative. Here are...

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News from West Palm Beach

In the South Florida Sun-Sentinel this week, an opinion piece by Kimberly Mitchell, a West Palm Beach city commissioner, about efforts there to replicate the Harlem Children’s Zone: This past August,...

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News from Sulphur Springs

In today’s St. Petersburg Times, an article about a program to revitalize the Sulphur Springs neighborhood in Tampa, inspired by the Harlem Children’s Zone: Beginning in 1997, the Harlem Children’s...

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Promise Neighborhood launch

The federal Department of Education finally officially launched its Promise Neighborhood program last week. The department invited interested non-profits to submit applications for planning grants....

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