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Delaware Schools Receive $1.5 Million in Grant Money
Newsworks.org (08/20/2013) O'Malley, ShanaThe Delaware Education Department has awarded close to $1.5 million in grants to 14 programs that will have the biggest impact on students. "We give out funding to people who [we] think are going to do great work for kids and then we make a real commitment to learn from it and frankly to hold ourselves accountable for the outcomes," says State Education Secretary Mark Murphy. "We thought the most impactful thing would be to allow our educators, allow our districts to name what were the biggest needs that they had." The biggest grant of $600,000 was given to a consortium comprised of the Brandywine, Indian River, New Castle County Vo-Tech, and Colonial school districts, each of which will receive $150,000 for the Link to the Future program to give students more personalized data about school progress and learning goals. Murphy says, "These four districts came together almost a year ago and they started to have really robust conversations about what the future of learning needs to look like, especially in our middle and high schools. They started to have conversations that our students need a more personalized experience." To view the entire list of grant recipients, click here.
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