More than 1,000 NYC first graders’ college savings accounts set to grow by total of $1 million

Roughly 1,200 first graders from a Brooklyn school district with the city’s highest proportion of Black students are seeing $1,000 added to their new college savings accounts, the result of donations from Bloomberg Philanthropies and a local foundation. The Save for College Program, a public-private partnership, will announce a $1 million investment Tuesday in the college […]