Category: Press Release
Walmart Foundation Awards League for Innovation $3.5 Million to Support Job Skills Training
The Walmart Foundation has awarded a $3.5 million grant to the League for Innovation in the Community College for a second Walmart Brighter Futures Project. One of the project’s goals is to provide low-income adults and older youth the skills necessary to obtain middle-skill jobs enabling them to become financially self-sufficient. The second goal is to develop a model that will provide project participants with confidence that they have acquired the skills needed by employers and that will empower them to document those skills and communicate them effectively to employers.
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Colleges Take Note: New NGLC Grants for Secondary Ed
In the fall of 2013, Fayette County Public Schools, in Lexington, Kentucky, and the University of Kentucky will join forces to open a brand new high school in an effort to improve both college readiness and college completion.
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NGLC Announces $5.4 Million in Latest Grants Supporting Breakthrough Models for College Readiness and Completion
NGLC grants support blended, personalized learning models – 20 secondary schools and 10 postsecondary degree programs in all
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