{"id":23885,"date":"2016-03-23T09:48:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T16:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/detroit-makes-community-college-free"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:04:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:04:58","slug":"detroit-makes-community-college-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/detroit-makes-community-college-free","title":{"rendered":"Detroit makes community college free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/detroit-makes-community-college-free.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Starting this year, any graduating high school<strong> <\/strong>senior who is accepted to one of Detroit\u2019s five community colleges won\u2019t have to pay a dime for tuition.<\/p>\n<p>The Detroit Promise Zone program, officially launched on Tuesday, will make it possible. At first the funds will come from a private scholarship foundation. But starting in 2018, some of the money will come from property taxes already earmarked for the program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter whether you\u2019re a high school senior preparing for college now or a second-grader whose college career is years away. The Detroit Promise will be there to help make a college education a reality,\u201d said Mayor Mike Duggan.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2016\/03\/22\/pf\/college\/detroit-tuition-free-college\/index.html?sr=fbmoney032316detroit-tuition-free-college0245PMVODtopLink&linkId=22598647\">http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2016\/03\/22\/pf\/college\/detroit-tuition-f...d=22598647<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting this year, any graduating high school senior who is accepted to one of Detroit\u2019s five community colleges won\u2019t have to pay a dime for tuition. The Detroit Promise Zone program, officially launched on Tuesday, will make it possible. At first the funds will come from a private scholarship foundation. But starting in 2018, some [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23885"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67935,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23885\/revisions\/67935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}