Districts join push to improve tutoring.Two urban districts--Memphis City Schools and Anchorage Anchorage (ăng`kərĭj), city (1990 pop. 226,338), Anchorage census div., S central Alaska, a port at the head of Cook Inlet; inc. 1920. School District--will join Boston and Chicago schools Chicago School Group of architects and engineers who in the 1890s exploited the twin developments of structural steel framing and the electrified elevator, paving the way for the ubiquitous modern-day skyscraper. in a pilot program this year to improve the quality and delivery of free tutoring to struggling students. A second pilot program last year that gave four districts in Virginia Virginia, state, United States Virginia, state of the south-central United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), North Carolina and Tennessee (S), Kentucky and West Virginia (W), and Maryland and the District of Columbia (N and NE). the chance to offer supplemental educational services, or tutoring, in schools in the first year of needing improvement was also extended. This year, some districts in Alaska, Delaware Delaware, state, United States Delaware (dĕl`əwâr, –wər), one of the Middle Atlantic states of the United States, the country's second smallest state (after Rhode Island). , Indiana, and North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. can offer SES in the first year of needing improvement. The extension stems from the success of the original pilots, which aim to increase student participation in SES offered under No Child Left Behind. Only 10-20 percent of eligible students nationwide took free tutoring in 2003-2004. The first pilot allows Memphis, Anchorage, Boston and Chicago districts in need of improvement to provide tutoring. The original intent of the law barred districts in need of improvement from providing tutoring themselves and stipulated that they had to provide private tutoring. |
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