school districts

The foundation has awarded $1.55 million to help expand the California Office to Reform Education collaborative and $3.7 million for a project that will study the characteristics of eleven school districts that have shown system-wide student success....

Seven organizations and school districts across New England will each receive a one-year, $200,000 grant to collaborate on how to implement student-centered education systems that meet the needs of all learners....

A portion of the funds will be used to match grants from the $650 million federal Investing in Innovation Fund, which provides grants to local educational agencies, nonprofits, and school districts with a record of success in enacting education reform....

First-quarter grants awarded by the foundation included $4.5 million to ConnectEd for its California Linked Learning District Initiative, which will support the implementation of "linked learning" pathways at nine high school districts....

The foundation will provide support to school districts working to develop and test methods to rate, recruit, train, assign, and assess teachers....

The report from the New Teacher Project found that most U.S. school districts use evaluation systems that fail to distinguish between teaching that is great, good, fair, and poor....

As school districts face budget gaps, some teachers are offering to forgo raises, take pay cuts or dig into their own pockets.