AMARILLO, TEXAS -- There's big education news for the City of Amarillo. We are 1 of 4 cities chosen for a program to encourage young adults to further their education. The Amarillo Area Foundation announced Wednesday it hs been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Gates Foundation. That means, for the next several months, the Foundation, along with Panhandle Twenty/20 and education leaders in our area will work together looking at data from scholarship programs to work programs just to name a few. The Foundation says it's low-income young adults it wants to target in our area.
"We'll look at strategies, we'll look at what we have in place what works what doesn't work and things that really have an opportunity to make things better. To remove barriers so to speak that people can go ahead and go to college or come back and go to school or trade school of those types of things," said Charlotte Rose, Vice President of Regional Services of the Amarillo Area Foundation. Rose says in April, the Foundation will the turn over that data to the Gates Foundation. After that, the Amarillo Area Foundation could be awarded an additional $1.5 million dollars in funding.
