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Article: MESA COMMUNITY COLLEGE, CITY OF MESA, MESA PUBLIC SCHOOLS LINKING SERVICES TO IMPROVE COLLEGE GRADUATION RATES
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 5, 2009
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MESA, Ariz., Nov. 1 -- Maricopa Community Colleges' Mesa Community College issued the following news release:
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the National League of Cities today announced that Mesa Community College (MCC), Mesa Public Schools (MPS) and the City of Mesa (COM) have been awarded a grant to boost college graduation rates by improving coordination between colleges, schools and cities. Mesa is one of seven government bodies awarded a grant.
The $250,000 grant is part of a National League of Cities initiative to help officials explore new and better ways in which they can work together to streamline services to low-income young adults in Mesa. The goal of the plan is ...