LOCAL UNITED WAY WINS $25 MILLION GRANT FOR EDUCATION ON THE EAST SIDE SAN ANTONIO

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Source:  Metro Daily News


The local United Way won a $24.6 million federal grant to bolster children's educational achievement and community development on the East Side, scoring the highest in the nation among applicants, the U.S. Education Department and Mayor Julián Castro announced Monday.

Local officials view the San Antonio Eastside Promise Neighborhoods grant, to be spent over five years, as an investment in early-childhood education, affordable housing and access to social services. Castro's office cited the grant as another sign of cooperation by the city in winning money and attention from the federal government, building on VIA Metropolitan Transit's four recent grants for transit improvements totaling $24 million.

“Santa came a couple of days early,” City Councilwoman Ivy Taylor said to cheers from a jubilant crowd of elected officials, educators, schoolchildren and United Way representatives gathered at the Ella Austin Community Center for the announcement.

Referring to students in the room, Taylor said, “We definitely don't want the ZIP code to be a predictor of their future.”


Reposted by:  The African American Network

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