August 23, 2011
The Wallace Foundation has awarded a $600,000 grant to EDC to support the newly launched $75-million, six-year “Principal Pipeline” Initiative to help six urban school districts build a corps of effective school leaders.
EDC researchers will work with six districts across the country to assess the quality of their leader training programs using a tool previously developed by EDC with Wallace support. Based on that assessment, EDC will recommend ways to improve principal training to each district and its training programs.
“This new initiative takes previous Wallace work an important step further,” said Cheryl King, director of EDC’s Leadership for Learning Innovation Program. “We are very pleased to support the foundation’s efforts to find out whether districts can create pipelines that produce a large number of highly-qualified principals and whether student achievement rises as a result.”
Read the Wallace press release: http://www.wallacefoundation.org/view-latest-news/PressRelease/Pages/The-Wallace-Foundation-Launches-Major-Principal-Pipeline-Initiative-to-Help-School-Districts-Build-Corps.aspx
