By The Sun-Gazette, November 13, 2019
The Tulare County Office of Education will play a key role in helping develop strategies to improve student outcomes for black, Latino and low-income students.
Last week, the Tulare County Office of Education (TCOE) learned it will receive a $500,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. TCOE was the only K-12 agency in California among the current cohort of Model Design & Initiation (MDI) grantees. The MDI grant is the second grant awarded to TCOE by the foundation. The first came in 2015 to fund the original Central Valley Networked Improvement Community (CVNIC), a network of eight school districts who brought together a core group of teachers from each district to strategize on how to improve 5th grade math scores.
As an MDI grantee, TCOE will work to increase its knowledge and skills in the areas of diversity, equity, and inclusion; measurement and evaluation; and to scale its continuous improvement expertise more broadly across the organization. As a culminating grant activity, TCOE intends to codify its learning through the development of a Network for School Improvement (NSI) in order to facilitate countywide implementation. The future countywide NSI will be used to increase the academic outcomes for black, Latino, and low-income secondary students in Tulare and Kings counties.
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