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By offering a new scholarship plan, Advantage Academy, a K-8 Kalamazoo charter school, is seeking to compete with The Kalamazoo Promise, a scholarship plan which provides each Kalamazoo district school graduate with up to 100 percent university tuition. Under Advantage’s plan, students who leave Advantage in the eighth grade and graduate from any Kalamazoo County public high school will receive a scholarship worth up to 35 percent of tuition for four years to any Michigan public college. Those who then graduate from Kalamazoo Public Schools (KPS) will have the other 65 percent of their tuition covered by The Promise. The program is being funded by a foundation established by Mosaica Education Inc., the New York-based company that operates Advantage. The new program eliminates the incentive for Advantage students to transfer to KPS before high school.
Source: Kalamazoo Gazette
Date: 08/16/2007
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