The Kalamazoo Community Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation have announced their support for an education initiative designed to ensure that every child in Kalamazoo County is ready for school, college, and life.
To that end, Kellogg awarded a three-year, $6 million grant and the community foundation pledged $5 million over five years for the creation of the Learning Network of Greater Kalamazoo, which will seek to engage area residents and organizations in measurably improving the performance of students in pre-kindergarten through college while building community-wide support for fundamental changes in how — and how well — future generations are educated.
According to the Battle Creek Enquirer, the details of the initiative are still being finalized, but at least $1 million will be used to fund a new preschool program called Kalamazoo County Ready 4s that will place fifteen hundred four-year-olds in pre-K settings that have been rigorously assessed for quality.
"We want to change the community culture so that we are a community that insists on every child being successful and recognizes it's everyone's responsibility to make that happen," said Carrie Pickett-Erway, vice president of community investment at KCF. "The schools can only do so much. This is about supporting every family and the community as well."
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