Use Promise Neighborhoods Initiative as a Model for Effective Practices
One of the major new, community-focused initiatives of this administration is called Promise Neighborhoods: "The President’s Budget also provides ...more »
One of the major new, community-focused initiatives of this administration is called Promise Neighborhoods:
"The President’s Budget also provides funds to support Promise Neighborhoods, a new effort to test innovative strategies to improve academic achievement and life outcomes in high-poverty areas. The program will be modeled after the
Harlem Children’s Zone, which aims to improve college-going rates by combining a rigorous K-12 education with a full network of supportive services—from early childhood education to after-school activities to college counseling—in an entire neighborhood from birth to college."
In order for the Promise Neighborhoods Initiative to succeed, there must be effective collaboration among numerous federal strategies; inspiring and authentic public participation in the neighborhoods; and outcomes-based collaboration among schools, local government agencies, and nonprofits; in other words, many of the strategies of the Open Government Initiative.
The Administration should design the Promise Neighborhoods Initiative as a demonstration project for the key strategies of the Open Government Initiative to show how an initiative can unfold with effective participation and collaboration.
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