{"id":6189,"date":"2017-09-21T20:02:20","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T03:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsincerity.wpengine.com\/?p=214"},"modified":"2023-05-18T12:43:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T12:43:29","slug":"were-not-fancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kilde.org\/new-sincerity\/were-not-fancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Town in Michigan Vows to Send All Students to College"},"content":{"rendered":"

They might not be fancy but Baldwin, Michigan found a way to send every kid in town to college. It\u2019s called The Baldwin Promise<\/a>. The deal is that, if you graduate, you are guaranteed $5,000 a year for college tuition, for up to 4 years.<\/p>\n

This isn’t an easy task for any community, and it’s especially tough when 1 in 3 folks live below the poverty line. But what Baldwin lacks in money, it more than makes up for with heart and grit.<\/p>\n

Rich Simonson created The Baldwin Promise. He\u2019s a retired politician and a Baldwin native. He and the community pooled their resources and, starting in 2005, every kid in Baldwin now receives $5,000 for up to 4 years of college, paid for by small donations from residents. Now almost everyone who graduates high school in Baldwin heads off to college or technical school.<\/p>\n

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