Grants for more than $5.8 million have been awarded to California universities and school districts to address the achievement gap among students.
California State University, Chico, is among universities receiving grants.
The grants of nearly $1 million each to six university-district partnerships are meant to improve instruction by teachers in low-performing schools.
The teacher training grants were awarded by the California Postsecondary Education Commission through the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
The universities and districts that received the grants are:
California State University, Chico, in partnership with Gridley Unified School District; CSU, Long Beach, and Montebello Unified; CSU, San Bernardino, and Ontario-Montclair School District; University of California, Irvine, and Compton Unified; University of California, Berkeley, and Oakland Unified; and Claremont Graduate University and Pomona Unified.
The grant to Chico State's School of Education and College of Natural Sciences in partnership with Gridley Unified is for $978,884. The project name for the Chico-Gridley effort is "Science and Academic Literacy."
– Bill Lindelof
