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Smaller Learning Communities

The program provides competitive grants to increase the academic achievement in large high schools through the creation of smaller, more personalized learning environments. High schools with at least 1,000 students use funds to establish strategies such as career academies to create more personalized instruction.

Rating

What This Rating Means

NOT PERFORMING
Results Not Demonstrated

A rating of Results Not Demonstrated (RND) indicates that a program has not been able to develop acceptable performance goals or collect data to determine whether it is performing.
  • The program significantly overlaps with private efforts. In recent years, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and other private foundations have provided significant funding to promote small schools.
  • The program has not addressed some strategic planning deficiencies or met established targets. For example, the program has not met its annual targets for increasing academic achievement in reading and mathematics.
  • Grantee performance data are not publicly available. While the Department collects and analyzes data for individual grantees, they are not available to the public in an accessible format on the Department's website.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Continuing to implement a technical assistance strategy to raise student achievement, such as focusing on literacy interventions for ninth graders.
  • Measuring program efficiency and working to improve it.
  • Creating a mechanism for individual grantee program performance data to be available to the public.

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