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The Washington Post carries a good article on The Pittsburgh Promise.

Pittsburgh scholarships saving schools, students

Take a moment to learn more about the Pittsburgh Promise and the Kalamazoo Promise.

As the Cleveland Fed has pointed out, two key factors drive to economic development: educational attainment and innovation, yet the Greater Cleveland Partnership has sidestepped any significant commitment to improving educational outcomes in Cleveland.

In Cleveland, high school drop out rates remain high. This is one area where concerted effort can make a real and predictable difference. (See, for example, Project U Turn in Philadelphia.)

In Philadelphia, a recent analysis revealed that federal, state, and local governments could gain $580,000 for each successful high school graduation of a urban area student who would have otherwise dropped out of high school.

We have a business community and political leadership at the County obsessed with real estate deals. (In a kleptocracy like Cleveland and Louisiana, that’s how insiders enrich themselves: inflated land values, sweetheart bailouts, and fees from bond deals, to name a few ways.)

There is no strategy to improve educational attainment for the city and the county.

Big mistake.

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