EdSource Today (3/20, Adams) reports that ED’s Office for Special Education has given a $200,000 grant to the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing as part of its $25 million, five-year mission to “improve instruction for children with” disabilities by implementing “reforms in 20 states, including this newly announced effort in California.” The California effort will focus on “curricula at the colleges of education, credentialing standards for teachers and administrators in both general and special education, and measurements of successful educator training programs.”
Gates Foundation Considering California Common Core Grant Program
EdSource Today (1/10) reports that though it has “largely steered clear of making education grants in California over the past half-decade,” the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is considering a series of grants to help with Common Core-related professional development in the state. The article notes that the foundation has given the Fresno and Long Beach USDs $5 million grants “for innovative ways to pursue training in the new math and English language arts standards.” The piece says that the foundation is “impressed with Fresno’s and Long Beach’s proposals” and “will decide by late spring whether to expand that initiative to networks of districts that may affect 25 percent to 30 percent of California’s 6 million students.”
