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Pre-Collegiate Education
Notice Concerning 2008 Pre-Collegiate Education Grants
The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation is committed to the goal of improving pre-collegiate education for North Carolina’s children. In order to use its available resources in the most effective way, the Foundation will re-examine its pre-collegiate education goals and strategies during 2008. For this reason, the Foundation anticipates making only limited grants in the pre-collegiate education focus area in the spring of 2008, and the Foundation does not anticipate making any new grants in the pre-collegiate education focus area in the fall of 2008.
The Foundation staff welcomes your ideas and suggestions as we re-examine the Foundation’s goals and strategies in this focus area.
Goals
The Foundation seeks to foster an educational system that provides each student in North Carolina the constitutionally guaranteed right of a “sound, basic education” regardless of race, socio-economic status, gender, geography or other discriminating factors.
Results Sought
The Foundation invests in organizations and projects that achieve the following:
1: Train, place and retain highly-qualified teachers for every child and skilled administrators for every school, with particular emphasis on increasing the number of people of color in those positions
- Increase the number of highly-qualified teachers and administrators
- Measurably increase the rates of retention of highly-qualified teachers
- Improve the delivery and quality of professional development opportunities
- Increase the use of technology, training and innovative models to increase access to high-quality teaching in hard to staff subject areas
2: Improve educational achievement through equity in education
- Close the academic achievement gap between white students and students of color
- Promote fair and effective accountability and testing models
- Increase access to and improve the system of early childhood education for disadvantaged students
- Increase the diversity of and enrollment in academically advanced course offerings for currently underrepresented students
- Ensure adequate distribution of resources within or among school districts
Within this focus area, priority is given to regional (multi-county) and statewide efforts.
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