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Posted February 25, 2013
The University of Southern Maine joins Mayor Michael Brennan in a new education partnership intended to provide support from children, students and workers from "cradle-to-career"
"That partnership will lead to a multimillion-dollar endowment to help Portland students afford post-secondary education, Brennan said Friday.
Brennan said in a prepared statement that the partnership will connect the education, business, nonprofit, civic and philanthropic sectors. It will focus on strategies that he said are proven to work: early childhood education, kindergarten through 12th-grade literacy, and post-secondary training."
Read the rest of the Portland Press Herald article at: http://bit.ly/VVgj2w
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