“No matter what the economic situation is for a student’s family, they don’t have to worry,” Ponce said last week as he visited the Eugene Field cafeteria. “It’s an unbelievable program.”
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OKC leverages federal dollars to expand affordable housing options
The new federal budget plan puts those funds — and the revitalization they bring to the metro — in jeopardy.
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Oklahoma City-County Health Department and Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma team up
Lawyers assist patients with various issues, leading to better and often cheaper health care outcomes.
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Goodwill Industries of Central Oklahoma receives grant to help veterans
The organization will use the funds from the Supportive Services for Veteran Families Program to help homeless and imminently homeless veterans and their families.
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Program aids minority students
A local fraternity runs a program to help low-income and minority students learn responsibility and self-respect.
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Enterprise schools work best
All three types of choice schools have excellent records that are virtually indistinguishable. Our application-only school market is oversaturated, however, and we must think anew. OKC’s Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) Reach College Preparatory, for instance, does great work, but its potential is maxed out. It still serves about half of the students as the […]