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Biggest success of The Kalamazoo Promise? It’s a magnet.

KALAMAZOO, MI -- In the first year after The Kalamazoo Promise launched, district enrollment increased by 1,000 students. The increase didn’t stop there. The Promise program gives free tuition to ...
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17 years later, The Kalamazoo Promise has changed lives. But it hasn’t been a cure-all.

When Hipolito and Maggie Garcia were growing up in Mexico, even a middle and high school education was a luxury their families couldn’t afford. As a young married couple, the Garcias emigrated to the ...