In 2011, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation created the Project Mastery grant program to support competency - based education
initiatives in large school systems that serve a high proportion of disadvantaged youth.
«Principals
in the Pipeline,» a feature article sponsored by Wallace, profiles six districts across the country taking part
in a six - year
initiative to establish principal «pipelines» — local
systems ensuring that a
large corps of
school leaders is properly trained, hired, and developed on the job.