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BLOOMINGTON - More than a dozen Central Illinois school districts are at the starting line, ready to see if they qualify for Race to the Top. Earlier this month, Illinois was named one of 15 states and the District of Columbia (among 40 and Washington, D.C. that applied) in the running for a share for of $4.35 billion in federal grants to enact education reform and improve student achievement. The names of states divvying up about $2 billion in the first phase will be announced in April.
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...28,. 1988, 102 Stat. 338, authorized grants and contracts to improve educational opportunities...
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[...] only 6 percent of students come from families with low enough incomes to qualify for free lunch, and more tiian 70 percent of students are white The RS.6 RAs 2007 tax filings show it finished with $775,486 in revenue diat year, and used the vast majority to cover "teaching expenses, etc, not provided for in Board of Education Budget" (According to a September 2, 2009, agreement between the United Federation of Teachers and the DOE, schools can hire what are called Parent Association Teacher Aides as temporary employees so long as they do not "replace, substitute for, or supplant in any way any UFT-represented employee") Similarly, parents at P.S.41 on West lidi Street claimed $503,794 in total revenue in 2007 and contributed more tiian half of it to what it called "teachers, super...
... use of hundreds of diousands of dollars in grants raised through his own ingenuity. Last year, a $30...
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Two dozen Los Angeles Unified schools, including two in the San Fernando Valley, were classified as being among California's lowest- performing campuses and could receive federal grants to turn themselves around, the state Department of Education said Monday. While the schools can apply for federal grants of up to $6million per campus, receiving the money requires district officials to make drastic reform like replacing all staff or converting campuses to independently run charter schools.
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AUGUSTA - The state Department of Education on Tuesday identified what it called the state's 10 "persistently lowest-achieving schools," thereby deeming those schools eligible for a total of $12 million in federal school improvement grants. Education Commissioner Susan Gendron characterized the release of the list as "an incredible opportunity" for the identified schools, but at least one high school administrator from northern Maine said his school may have been unfairly targeted.
