New ‘Good to Great’ grants seek to boost early literacy
Posted: Thursday, May 2, 2019
Source:
The Notebook
Ten elementary schools have received grants from the Fund for the School District of Philadelphia with the goal of strengthening early literacy programs. The new “Good to Great” grants, which range in size from $20,000 to nearly $75,000, were funded by the William Penn Foundation.
The grants, which totaled nearly $536,000, were designed to help schools tackle challenges faced by particular student populations, and they focused on grade-level reading proficiency by 3rd grade. The District already has early-learning initiatives and is committed to reading proficiency for all students, but the grants were meant to give schools funding for projects that would assist them in ways that work for each school.