Montclair State University is using a $1 million grant from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation to transform Eastside High School in Paterson into a University-assisted community school, that will offer free meals, health care, mental health counseling to students and their families.Eastside High School in Paterson sits in the middle of a struggling neighborhood, in a city where 25% of the residents are living below the poverty line, according to the 2020 U.S. Census.
The initiative is called One Square Mile, and it is being seeded with a $1 million grant from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. The program was developed by Koppell during his tenure as Dean of the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions at Arizona State University, which worked with the Phoenix-area community of Maryvale to address poverty.
Montclair State University school president Jonathan Koppell, at the school in Montclair, N.J., Monday, September 12, 2022 Ed Murray | NJ Advance Media for NJ.comOne Square Mile is in line the Full Service Community School program run by the U.S. Department of Education that Paterson has adopted in 10 other schools. Paterson recently received a $2.5 million from the U.S. DOE to continue the program at School No. 16 and the Alonzo Tambua Moody Academy.
And where is this $M coming from?
Sadly this money will go to Nazis in UkRaINE