Hawaii--Approximately $3.5 million in grants were awarded by the U.S. Department of Education this summer to eight Honolulu-area organizations for innovative projects to improve education.
Approximately $3.5 million in grants were awarded by the U.S.
Department of Education this summer to eight Honolulu-area organizations
for innovative projects to improve education. Funded through No Child
Left Behind's Native Hawaiian Education Program, these efforts
range from beginning reading to gifted and talented programs. One
project seeks to break the "culture of poverty" among homeless
families through a mobile preschool outreach designed to transition more
than 700 children and adults into emergency shelters, which also will
house family literacy services. In addition, the University of Hawaii at
Hilo received a $344,930 award from the Department to create a system of
services promoting literacy and oral proficiency among students in
grades K-3 at Hawaiian Language Immersion Program schools.
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