City Schools To Receive $13 Million In Grants
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A total of 55 middle schools throughout the city are receiving $13 million in grants.
The Department of Education is teaming up with the General Electric Foundation to hand out the money. Seventeen of the schools will receive grants of up to $250,000 from GE. The other 38 grants will be doled out by the DOE.
Supporters say the money is a sound investment in the country's future.
"If we don't find a way to provide equal educational opportunity and quality educational opportunity for all of our children in this country, we're in deep trouble," said GE Foundation President Robert Corcoran.
"We want to see the results that we get from these particular investments. And then through our knowledge management, work to really take them to other schools and basically, make this contagious," said Schools Chancellor Joel Klein.
School administrators had to go through a rigorous application process. They had to come up with plans illustrating how they'd improve their schools as well as how they'd use the grant money to achieve those goals.