The new D.C. Choice Incentive Program launches a five-year,federally funded program to provide close to 2,000 low-incomestudents in the District of Columbia with grants of up to $7,500each to attend the school of their choice, be it private,parochial, or other. These opportunity scholarships provide aworkable, hopeful alternative to open private schools to low-incomeand minority students trapped in failing public schools.
The City of Douglas received redesignation as a PlanFirst Community, 2nd Year RAS participant, and City of Douglas officials and Action Pact leaders receive $1,000,000 from the Georgia Department of Community Affairs. This project is a collaboration between the City of Douglas, Action Pact, Coffee County, and the Coffee County Board of Education to expand the current Early Head Start and Head Start facility.
Pictured Back Row (L-R): Penny Houston (Georgia Representative 170th District/Chairman, Appropriations: Economic Development), Gloria Paulk (Action Pact Executive Board), Angela Carr (Assistant Headstart Director), Christopher Nunn (DCA Commissioner), Michael Jacobs (SGRC Senior Planner), Charles Davis (City Manager), Michael Hudson (Douglas Utilities Director), and Wesley Vickers (Coffee County Administrator)
Front Row (L-R): Melody Henderson (Headstart Leadership Team Representative), Commissioner Kentaiwon Durham, Commissioner Olivia Pearson, Georgia Henderson (Community Devel