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New Investments Launch Effort to Transform High Schools and Help Region One area Students Graduate Ready for College, Work
Annette S. GarciaRegion One Education Service CenterPhone: 956.984.6011Email: [email protected] EDINBURG, Texas — The Region One Education Service Center (ESC), in partnership with the Center for School Excellence (CSE) and the…
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Pratt Fine Arts Center Expands Arts Program for At-Risk and Special Education Youth
SEATTLE — Pratt Fine Arts Center announces today a new effort to refine and expand Youth Art Works, an program providing free art classes to at-risk and special education youth.…
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Teacher Training Program Extends to New West Side High School
Anissa ListakAcademy for Urban School LeadershipPhone: 773.534.0142Email: [email protected] CHICAGO — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced a $960,000 grant to the Academy for Urban School Leadership (AUSL) to…
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Statement by Bill and Melinda Gates About Being Named Persons of the Year
We’re honored to have been named, together with our friend Bono, as Time Magazine’s Persons of the Year. We’re grateful that Time recognizes the importance of the world’s inequities, whether…
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New Investment to Help Improve Quality of Education for Mississippi Students and Schools Affected by Katrina
Caron Blanton, APR Mississippi Department of Education Phone: 601.359.3706 Email: [email protected] JACKSON, Miss. — The Mississippi Department of Education today announced a $5 million investment from the Bill & Melinda Gates…
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$71 Million Commited to Launch the Texas Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (TSTEM) Initiative
Laurey PeatLaurey Peat + Associates, Inc. Phone: 214.871.8787Email: [email protected] DALLAS — The Texas High School Project (THSP)—supported by Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the Texas Education Agency (TEA), the Michael & Susan Dell…
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New Investment Accelerates Success for Mapleton Students
Barbara SemedoBill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: 206.709.3400Email: [email protected] MAPLETON, Colo. — Mapleton Public Schools today announced an investment of more than $2.6 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation…
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Lutheran World Relief Receives Grant to Fight Hunger in Niger – Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
BALTIMORE — Lutheran World Relief has received a $640,104 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help nomadic communities in Niger avert food crises through new, innovative approaches…
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Boston Public Schools Continues Work on High School Renewal – Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Jonathan PalumboBoston Public SchoolsPhone: 617.635.9494Email: [email protected] BOSTON — Boston Public Schools (BPS) today announced a $9 million investment by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support the expansion of its…
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HarvestPlus Receives US$6 Million Gates Foundation Grant to Disseminate Biofortified Sweetpotato to the Undernourished in Africa
MARRAKECH, Morocco — HarvestPlus has received a US$6 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to introduce a nutritionally improved staple food—orange sweetpotato—into the diets of the undernourished in…