Category: Kalamazoo Promise

Tour D’ Meeee-sheeee–gan

OK, it’s a weak title, but it is all I have! I left Tuesday afternoon and drove from here to here. If you look at the scrolling heading in my old hometown of Cadillac, then you will see a photograph of this place. My Dad ran a Funeral Home there from 1958 to 1979. Then …

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Promise Me

I opened yesterday’s FREEP last night and found this.  Regulars may remember that I wrote a little about D2 relocating to the city in question, as a teacher in the schools mentioned.  It would appear, from the comments on the FREEP site that plenty of people have opinions on the Promise, but few of them …

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We Missed It

We had a 7:00 p.m. appointment, thank goodness for the internet.  Read about the Kalamazoo Promise story on the CBS news site, and watch the video from last night’s CBS News. BTW, Granny thinks this is good idea.  Additionally, you might notice that the superintendent and the news anchor interviewing her are both female. That’s a …

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Promise, The Saga Continues

You may remember that D2 and her family moved to a new town at the end of the summer.  She took a job with the Kalamazoo Public School District.  Most school districts in Michigan are on hard times, but  the Kalamazoo district has a little something going for it, the Kalamazoo Promise.  This is a …

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