The foundation funds the Washington State Achievers Program to support school improvement and scholarships in several Washington state districts.

Evaluations of the short- and long-term impact of the program on students from the scholarship component of these investments are available below.

Note: Evaluations of related Washington State Achievers school improvement grants are available here.

Expanding Access and Opportunity: The Washington State Achievers Scholarship
The Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education
2007
(773 KB PDF)

The Impact of Financial Aid Guarantees on Enrollment and Persistence: Evidence from Research on Indiana’s Twenty-first Century Scholars and Washington State Achievers Programs
Edward P. St. John
Chapter Six in State Merit Scholarship Programs and Racial Inequality edited by Donald E. Heller and Patricia Marin, The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University.
2004
(199 KB PDF)

Who Applies for and Who is Selected for Washington State Achievers Scholarships? 
Amon Emeka and Charles Hirschman, University of Washington
July 2003
(58 KB PDF)

Updated June 2007