LAGGING SCHOOLS SHARE CASH GRANTS FUND BEFORE- AND AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS.Byline: Lisa M. Sodders Staff Writer Forty-seven low-performing schools in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Unified - including just four in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. - will share $27 million in federal grants awarded to California schools for before- and after-school programs, officials said Tuesday. The federal grants were awarded by the State Department of Education under the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program, which seeks to establish or expand community learning centers for students at low-achieving or high-poverty schools. ``I'm thrilled,'' said Joanna Kunes, principal at Madison Middle School Madison Middle School can refer to:
The other three Valley schools were: Haddon, Sharp Avenue and Bertrand elementary schools. LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) will receive about $6.2 million from the grant, said John Liechty, associate superintendent for the LAUSD's Beyond the Bell branch, which handles after-school enrichment programs. Madison, a 2,200-student school, is 70 percent Hispanic and 20 percent Armenian, and has a 300-student health and medical careers magnet program, Kunes said. About half of the students are English-language learners and about 93 percent qualify for free and reduced lunches. Kunes has not been told how much Madison will receive, but she said the grant money will be used to support a variety of mentoring and enrichment programs, including computer labs and art classes. The money will also go toward tutoring to help students meet the state's math, science and reading requirements, the education department said in a statement. Most of the schools that received the grants are considered Program Improvement Schools under the federal No Child Left Behind Act The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (Public Law 107-110), commonly known as NCLB (IPA: /ˈnɪkəlbiː/), is a United States federal law that was passed in the House of Representatives on May 23, 2001 , said Kevin Brown The name Kevin Brown can refer to several different people, including the following:
Program Improvement Schools are those that have not met their student achievement goals for the past two consecutive years. ``Local law enforcement and the FBI strongly support after-school programs because they help to reduce dropout (1) On magnetic media, a bit that has lost its strength due to a surface defect or recording malfunction. If the bit is in an audio or video file, it might be detected by the error correction circuitry and either corrected or not, but if not, it is often not noticed by the human rates and time spent in unhealthy behaviors such as drug use and gang activity,'' U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-California), author of the federal law providing funding for after-school programs, said in the statement released by the education department. Lisa M. Sodders, (818) 713-3663 lisa.sodders(at)dailynews.com |
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