New Partnership - The City of New Haven, Yale University, and the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven have forged an unparalleled partnership to make an unprecedented Promise: every New Haven public high school graduate who meets residency, civic, behavior and academic performance criteria (B average or better) will receive a full-tuition scholarship to a Connecticut public college or university.

 To ensure the initiative is successful, the Mayor and the Superintendent of NHPS have asked College Summit to help reshape the city’s high schools around the purpose of college success. Drawing on 18 years of experience improving college success rates for low-income high schools, College Summit will provide its innovative curriculum, which guides students along the path to postsecondary options, as well as educate parents, train principals and teachers, and motivate the most influential students to encourage their peers to pursue postsecondary studies.  We will kick off the newfound partnership in 2011-2012 school year by serving 2,000 students (grades 9-12) in three high schools.