L.A. Unified and charter groups win teacher evaluation grants
The Los Angeles Unified School District and three local charter-school groups have won federal grants to develop their teacher and principal evaluation systems, the U.S. Department of Education has announced.
L.A. Unified, California’s largest school system, will receive $16 million, one of the largest grants. But the top prize in dollars, more than $23 million, went to the District of Columbia Public Schools, a system less than one-eighth the size of L.A. Unified.
The local charter schools that landed the funds were Alliance College-Ready Public Schools (nearly $2.2 million), Aspire Public Schools (nearly $12 million), and Green Dot Public Schools (nearly $2 million).
All the winners already have new evaluations systems underway or in development. The charter organizations have benefited from substantial support provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.