Turnaround Watch: The School Improvement Grant Program
Sunday, April 15, 2012

Three national organizations involved in education journalism--Education Week, the Education Writers Association and The Hechinger Report--have collaborated with news organizations around the country to examine the federally funded School Improvement Grant (SIG) program, which has received more than $4.6 billion since 2009.

These organizations are looking at how states, districts and individual schools are using this huge influx of money, and whether the funds are achieving the intended goal: helping improve student outcomes in the nation’s most troubled schools. Click here to read the findings.