Scott Swanson
After 10 years in Sweet Home, the GEAR-UP program is in its waning years but its effects are very evident, in many ways, its longtime coordinator says.
Kristin Adams, who has coordinated the district’s college awareness programs since they started more than a decade ago, said the approximately $40,000-per-year federal funding for GEAR-UP has largely stopped, but the numbers indicate that it has had an increasing effect on the Sweet Home community.
“It’s…