State wins $50m grant to assess kindergartners
Winner again in national school innovation contest
Massachusetts’ effort to create a statewide system of assessing students as soon as they enter kindergarten as well as to expand high quality preschool programs will receive an approximately $50 million boost from Washington, federal officials announced yesterday. Massachusetts is one of nine states that will receive funding from the Obama administration’s Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge, a $500 million competitive grant program that aims to foster sweeping changes in early childhood education across the nation.
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