{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cochran.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases?ContentRecord_id=77F8525A-C852-4F14-A242-F979DF68F2C8", "COCHRAN:  $30 MILLION AWARDED TO DELTA SCHOOLS, EDUCATION PROGRAMS", "2016-12-20", "2016", "2016-12", "Republican", "House", "MS", "Thad Cochran", "C000567", "www.cochran.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senator Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) today announced that the U.S. Department of Education is awarding nearly $30 million to childhood education programs in the Mississippi Delta. The nonprofit Delta Health Alliance (DHA) has been awarded a \u201cPromise Neighborhood\u201d grant, consisting of $5,999,980 per year for five years, to administer to schools and education programs in Leland, Hollandale, Arcola, and Stoneville.\u00a0 The funding will focus on supporting schools, community programs and family support systems to promote early childhood education, high school graduation and college attendance. \u201cThis grant award is significant and should help improve educational achievement in the Delta,\u201d Cochran said.\u00a0 \u201cEducation is a key to promoting economic growth and well-being of our state, and I\u2019m pleased the Department of Education is making this investment in the Mississippi Delta.\u201dCochran is chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee and serves as a senior member on the appropriations subcommittee with funding jurisdiction over the Department of Education.\u00a0 He supported the DHA grant application.DHA applied for the federal grant to establish the \u201cDeer Creek Promise Neighborhood\u201d with partners, among which are the city governments and school districts of Leland and Hollandale, the City of Arcola, area medical and housing organizations, Delta Council, Keplere Institute, Mississippi Delta Community College, and others.The purpose of the Promise Neighborhood program is to significantly improve the educational and developmental outcomes of children and youth in distressed communities.\u00a0 The program seeks to transform those communities through increasing coordination of schools, programs, and family support organizations to enable long-term success of local students.The Deer Creek program will be the second Promise Neighborhood operated by DHA.\u00a0 In 2012, it was awarded federal funding for a program in Indianola.\u00a0 At Cochran\u2019s request, Education Secretary John King this year visited the Indianola program and praised its success\r\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.cochran.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases?ContentRecord_id=77F8525A-C852-4F14-A242-F979DF68F2C8"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.264834776520729, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}