Center for Leadership and Educational Equity receives $1.6M grant

PROVIDENCE – The nonprofit Center for Leadership and Educational Equity received a $1.6 million grant through the U.S. Department of Education as part of its Turnaround School Leaders Program.
The grant was among 12 awarded around the country to help prepare leaders of reform efforts in the nation’s lowest-performing schools. More than $20 million was awarded through the Turnaround School Leaders Program, which is under the department’s School Improvement Grants program.
“Effective leaders who are trained to lead turnaround efforts in the lowest-performing schools are essential to improving student outcomes,” U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said in a statement. “These grants will provide the resources for states and districts to select, train and place great leaders in the schools – and with the students – that need them the most.”
Grantees will develop systems at the district level to recruit and select prospective and current school leaders with the skills necessary to turn around a School Improvement Grants school or SIG-eligible school; to provide high-quality training to selected school leaders to prepare them to successfully lead turnaround efforts; to place school leaders in SIG schools and provide them with ongoing professional development and other support that focuses on instructional leadership and school management based on individual needs; and to retain effective school leaders, using financial or other incentives, and replace ineffective school leaders.
According to information from the Center for Leadership and Educational Equity, 12 schools in Central Falls and Providence will benefit from the grant.
In the Central Falls Public School District:
• Central Falls High School
• Earl F. Calcutt Middle School
• Veterans Memorial Elementary
In the Providence Public School District:
• Carl Lauro Elementary School
• C. Woods & C. Young Elementary
• Dr. Jorge Alvarez High School
• Gilbert Stuart Middle School
• Juanita Sanchez High School
• Lillian Feinstein Sackett Elementary
• Pleasant View Elementary School
• Mount Pleasant High School
• Roger Williams Middle School
Through this program, the U.S. Department of Education provides grants to states to make competitive subgrants to districts that demonstrate the greatest need and the strongest commitment to use the funds to raise the achievement of students in the state’s lowest-performing schools.

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