By Bill Zeeble, KERA News
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Dallas, TX – Dallas, Fort Worth and other Texas school districts will share nearly 7 million dollar in grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The money should help more high school students go to college. KERA's Bill Zeeble has more.
6.7 million dollars from the Gates Foundations and others will fund research to improve teacher and student performance. The Texas High School Project, run out of Dallas, will get some of the money. In turn, it'll work with DISD and some other big city districts in a pilot project.
It's designed to speed up educational research in urban high schools. Faster access to rapidly changing information is the goal. The payoff's designed to help more high school students stay on track for college. The announcement's expected later this morning at DISD's W.T. White high school.