Three Boston colleges will obtain $420,000 in instructional fairness grants from the Boston Schools Fund this 12 months, BPS introduced Monday.
The PEAK Grants — aimed to enhance scholar outcomes and promote entry to high-quality tutorial supplies — will go to Adams Elementary School in East Boston, Sumner Elementary School in Roslindale and Rafael Hernandez Dual Language School in Roxbury.
The grants are the second era of this system, which goals to enhance “school quality for historically underserved students, including Black and Brown students, English Learners, and students with disabilities,” based on the group.
BSF was based in 2015 and stated it has distributed $20 million in instructional funding, unfold throughout 50 colleges and 20,000 college students in Boston.
BSF CEO Will Austin stated this system carefully screens outcomes information, together with enrollment numbers, testing scores and school-specific programmatic objectives.
“When schools utilize high-quality instructional materials — and educators are supported and trusted — student academic outcomes improve,” Austin stated in a launch.
The colleges will obtain technical help and training along with the grants.
In the following three years, BSF will make investments $2.3 million to help as much as 12 colleges, based on an announcement from the faculties.
“It takes a village to build up (BPS),” Superintendent Mary Skipper stated in a launch, thanking BSF and different companions.
“It will take all of us to make BPS a better place for our students,” Skipper stated, “and I am proud to see the sheer amount of support we have here in Boston.”
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