July 11, 2010
Foundations Gear Up to Bolster New Federal Aid to Innovative Schools
Leila Haddouche
Schools like those run by the nonprofit group KIPP exemplify the kind of innovation grant makers have long supported and new federal funds are intended to foster.
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Leila Haddouche
Schools like those run by the nonprofit group KIPP exemplify the kind of innovation grant makers have long supported and new federal funds are intended to foster.
Eli Broad, the California philanthropist, has spent about $400-million so far trying to overhaul the country’s urban public schools—a quest he describes as a battle against the status quo that has produced “equal parts success and frustration.”
But after more than a decade of promoting concepts like charter schools, performance pay for teachers, national learning standards, and school accountability, he believes the time is right to make real progress. Not only
