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Low-income children are a full year behind by 14, and the total achievement gap between the richest and poorest 10% has grown by 30-40% in 25 years. [22] Increasing school revenues by 10% would lead to an average of more years of education completed, future wage earnings increasing by 7.25%, and 3.67% less future poverty each year.
According to ERIC (1970), the story begins in 1871 with the founding of Arkansas Industrial University, a land-grant school renamed as the University of Arkansas. The Branch Normal College for Blacks began in 1873; it became Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical and Normal College in 1927, and University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff in 1972.
A federal grant is an award of financial assistance from a federal agency to a recipient to carry out a public purpose of support or stimulation authorized by a law of the United States. Grants are federal assistance to individuals, benefits or entitlements. A grant is not used to acquire property or services for the federal government's direct ...
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The Arkansas Governor's School (also known as Arkansas Governor's School for the Gifted and Talented or AGS) is a publicly funded four-week (formerly six-week) residential summer program offered to rising seniors in the state of Arkansas. The school typically accepts around 400 students each year. [1] Modeled after the Governor's School of ...
Arkansas is the 48th richest state in the United States of America, with a per capita income of $16,904 ... Grant: $22,229 $51,589 $58,741 17,853
18. FedEx Small Business Grant Contest. FedEx launched its annual Small Business Grant Contest in 2012. In that time, the company has given away $1.5 million in cash prizes to more than 100 small ...
The program is based on the larger national Teach for America program. [1] The program recruits "the highest achieving" college graduates from any major or field, and those selected as ATC fellows receive six weeks of pedagogic instruction, they work towards completing all requirements for a standard teaching license, and are paid $15,000 for completion of the three-year program (in addition ...