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| | No Child Left Behind subject of news conference
Tuesday, Apr 13, 2004 Arkansas News Bureau LITTLE ROCK - A $1.33 million grant to six schools in the Little Rock School District was announced Monday by an official of the U.S. Department of Education. Nina Rees, deputy undersecretary of education for innovation and improvement, said the grant will be used in a professional development program targeted to teachers of advanced placement courses. Rees said the money will be used to help the state's largest school district meet the challenges of the federal No Child Left Behind law. She said President Bush has pushed for more rigor in public schools, believing that by raising the bar, it helps all students. Rees said the grant program has nearly doubled in funding in the past year from $28 million to $51 million. "If you offer the course work, the students will come," Rees said. Dennis Glasgow, associate superintendent for curriculum and development for the Little Rock School District, said the program will benefit all students because the teachers receiving the professional development also teach students not in advanced placement courses. He said the district receives other funds, including grants, to help struggling students, but he said more is needed to get schools to improve to levels set under the No Child Left Behind law. The six schools receiving money from the grant: Hall High School, McClellan High School, Henderson Middle School, Cloverdale Middle School, Southwest Middle School, and Mabelvale Middle School. |
