Sentences with phrase «federal school improvement grant support»
«The mayor seems to be lost in his own fantasy world of education, the one where reality doesn't apply,» declared UFT President Michael Mulgrew in response to the mayor's State of the City speech on Jan. 12, in which, among other proposals, he threatened to fire half the staffs in 33 schools receiving federal School Improvement Grant support.
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If, for example, one - third of all schools found themselves «in need of improvement,» then the minimum amount of federal support required to fund grants of $ 50,000 per school would be $ 1.6 billion.
«Research clearly shows that no school improvement effort can succeed without effective leadership, and such leadership is needed at all levels - federal, state, district, and school - in our current systems and in the systems we will create in the future,» said M. Christine DeVita, president of The Wallace Foundation, which provided a $ 10 - million grant to support the effort.
CEC specializes in helping low - performing schools and their districts to implement comprehensive improvements, such as those required by the federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) program, with extensive on - site support.
The city benefitted from federal School Improvement Grants to shore up parent resources and community support.