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DCPS News
DCPS receives $3.6 million grant
with renewal potential of $10 million
Duval County Public Schools
received $3,649,461 million, with a potential for a
total of more than $10 million over the next three
years, through the Magnet Schools Assistance Program
grant from the United States Department of Education.
The award will help the district
reduce minority group isolation by increasing access to
magnet schools, adding school choice options for
students from lower performing schools, and improving
the quality of teaching.
The funds awarded today will help
these schools establish new magnet schools or expand
existing magnet programs.
The purpose of the program is to:
- eliminate, reduce, or prevent
minority group isolation in elementary and secondary
schools with substantial proportions of minority
students;
- develop and implement magnet
school programs that will assist in achieving
systemic reforms and provide all students the
opportunity to meet challenging state academic content
standards and student achievement standards;
- develop innovative educational
methods and practices that promote diversity and
increase choices in public elementary and secondary
schools;
- promote courses of instruction
within magnet schools that will substantially
strengthen students' knowledge of academic subjects
and attainment of tangible
- and marketable vocational,
technological, and professional skills;
- improve the capacity of school
districts to continue operating magnet schools after
federal funding ends; and,
- ensure that all students in
magnet schools programs have equitable access to
high-quality education that enables them to succeed
academically and continue
- with post-secondary education
or productive employment.
The Magnet Schools Assistance
Program is authorized under Title V, Part A of the
Elementary and Secondary Act, as amended in 1994 and is
administered by the Office of Innovation and
Improvement.
Magnet Schools and programs in Duval
County included in the grant are:
- Darnell-Cookman Middle School
– Gifted and Talented School of the Medical
Arts
- Sallye B. Mathis Elementary
School – Mathematics, Science and Pre-Engineering*
- Lake Forest Elementary School
– Visual and Performing Arts
- Henry F. Kite Elementary
School – International Baccalaureate Primary Years
- Justina Road Elementary School
– International Baccalaureate Primary Years
- Rufus Payne Elementary School
– International Baccalaureate Primary Years*
- Lake Shore Middle School –
International Baccalaureate Middle Years*
- Ft. Caroline Middle School –
International Baccalaureate Middle Years*
- Julia Landon Middle School
– College Preparatory Leadership Academy*
- North Shore K-8 – MicroSociety*
*denotes new Magnet school for
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