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Education Commission of the States

Denver, Colorado

Grants

1999 (1 year)
$27,000

To support a workshop and a working paper on teacher quality.

1995 (2 years 6 months)
$200,000

To develop an analytic model that to help states and school districts identify their full range of sources of revenue and items of expenditure for professional development of teachers and principals in grades K-12 (over two years).

1994 (1 year)
$50,000

To examine the costs and benefits—financial, political, and institutional—of professional development opportunities that help educators address the challenges of instituting higher national, state, and local standards for student learning.

1993 (1 year)
$22,000

To prepare an initial report on potential alliances between advocates of learning through community service and advocates of structural and curricular reform of schools; to convene leaders of education reform with leaders of service learning to outline conditions for allied efforts; and to prepare and circulate the proceedings.

1992 (1 year)
$48,000

To generate policy and program options for coordination and improvement of social and educational services in urban areas.

1989 (3 years)
$673,801

To support the Policies and Higher Literacies Project (over three years).

1988 (1 year)
$100,000

To plan and develop the Campus Partners in Learning Project.

1986 (1 year)
$400,000

To support studies, publications, and public discussion of state and local policies that constrain or promote the development of "higher literacies" and "thoughtfulness" among broad segments of the student population.

1986 (1 year 1 month)
$102,000

To stimulate and inform discussion of education reform issues and strategies among policymakers, the press, and the public using as a primary resource the report "The Best of Educations," by William Chance.