TEN SCHOOL/DISTRICT GRANT FINALISTS ANNOUNCED FOR $5 MILLION RAISE YOUR HAND TEXAS BLENDED LEARNING INITIATIVE
– Five winners to each receive $500,000 and technical support over three years –
AUSTIN, TX (January 11, 2016) – Raise Your Hand Texas today revealed the 10 finalist schools and districts – winnowed from 75 semifinalists – who remain under consideration for the $5 million Raising Blended Learners demonstration initiative.
The ten finalists include:
- Birdville ISD
- Cisco ISD
- Cypress-Fairbanks ISD
- Georgetown ISD
- Grand Prairie Young Women’s Leadership Academy
- KIPP Houston
- Pasadena ISD
- Point Isabel ISD
- Tulia ISD
- Ysleta ISD
Teams representing these 10 finalists will attend a workshop in February to receive professional assistance in further refining their blended learning plans. Five winners, to be announced as demonstration sites in April, will each receive up to $500,000 in grants and technical implementation support for three years. All semifinalists will have access to blended learning resources to refine and implement plans if they move forward with their own programs without grant funding, as several confirmed they intend to do.
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