St. Paul has come up short on a federal grant competition for providing birth-to-career support to disadvantaged children and their families through the schools, nonprofits and other organizations.
The St. Paul Promise Neighborhood, now in its seventh year and serving Jackson, Maxfield and Ben Mays elementaries and St. Paul City School, was hoping the grant would finance expansions into Ramsey Middle and Central High schools.
The organization has other funding sources that will enable those expansions, but it won’t happen as quickly, director Muneer Karcher-Ramos said last month.
The U.S. Department of Education on Tuesday announced a total of $33 million in promise neighborhood awards to six projects in Kentucky, New Jersey, Mississippi, Pennsylvania and California.