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Special Reports on School Improvement Grants
Published: July 11, 2012
This series of three special reports examines implementation of the federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) program. The first special report, Schools with Federal Improvement Grants Face Challenges in Replacing Principals and Teachers, looks at how states, districts, and schools are addressing challenges related to SIG staffing requirements. The second special report, Increased Learning Time Under Stimulus-Funded School Improvement Grants: High Hopes, Varied Implementation, highlights key findings about state, district, and school experiences related to the requirement to increase student learning time in SIG-funded schools. Findings in these first two special reports draw on survey data from 46 responding states and case study research in Idaho, Maryland, and Michigan, published in earlier CEP studies. The third special report, Changing the School Climate is the First Step to Reform in Many Schools with Federal Improvement Grants, examines the positive changes in school climate experienced by six case study schools that received the federal grants in Idaho, Maryland, and Michigan.
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Schools with Federal Improvement Grants Face Challenges in Replacing Principals and Teachers (PDF format, 181 KB) * Direct link: http://www.cep-dc.org/cfcontent_file.cfm?Attachment=McMurrer%5FReport1%5FChallengesinReplacingPrincipals%5F071112%2EpdfIncreased Learning Time Under Stimulus-Funded School Improvement Grants: High Hopes, Varied Implementation (PDF format, 185 KB) * Direct link: http://www.cep-dc.org/cfcontent_file.cfm?Attachment=McMurrer%5FReport2%5FIncreasedLearningTime%5F071112%2Epdf
Changing the School Climate is the First Step to Reform in Many Schools with Federal Improvement Grants (PDF format, 180 KB) * Direct link: http://www.cep-dc.org/cfcontent_file.cfm?Attachment=McMurrer%5FReport3%5FChangingtheSchoolClimate%5F071112%2Epdf
Press Release (PDF format, 268 KB) * Direct link: http://www.cep-dc.org/cfcontent_file.cfm?Attachment=PressRelease%5FSIGSpecialReports%5F071112%2Epdf%2Epdf