SEED School receives $2 million pledge

Milwaukee Business Journal:

The SEED School of Wisconsin said Tuesday that the Elizabeth A. Brinn Foundation is pledging $2 million towards SEED's campaign to bring a public, urban boarding school to the state.

The boarding school is being proposed by a local coalition of leaders, cooperating with The SEED Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that operates boarding schools in Washington, D.C. and Baltimore. Both schools are publicly funded and educate children who start, on average, with skills two to three years behind grade level. More than 98 percent of SEED school graduates have been accepted at a four-year college, according to The SEED Foundation.

"The children of Milwaukee and other challenged communities around the state will benefit from the Brinn Foundation's gracious gift," said Robert Sowinski, president of The SEED School of Wisconsin's board of directors.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at December 3, 2008 9:44 AM
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