The Obama administration spent over $ 3 million on School Improvement Grants to states to help them turn
around their lowest - performing schools, but a new report from the Institute
of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department
of Education finds that most states
lacked the
capacity to improve those schools.
In poor places, the risk is exacerbated by persistent poverty, dysfunctional government and a glaring
lack of capacity to track climate conditions and design agricultural systems and water supplies
around them.