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 Preface: Who We Are Overview: Multiple Paths with Multiple Strengths Matching Grants Outright Grants Grant Terms, National Coordination, and Ongoing Evaluation of Progress Appendix: Tables |
Since Walter Annenberg unveiled his $500 million "Challenge" for school reform in December 1993, twenty-one grants have been awarded from his gift. The grant-making phase of the Challenge, which has stretched over the past four years, is now complete. The first group of grants are outright awards to Brown University's Annenberg Institute for School Reform, the New American Schools, and the Education Commission of the States. The second group, which accounts for the largest share of the funds, includes matching grants - ranging in size from $10 to $53 million - to Boston, Chicago, Detroit, the Houston metropolitan area, the Los Angeles metropolitan area, New York City, Philadelphia, the San Francisco Bay metropolitan area, South Florida, and rural America. The third group involves smaller "special opportunity" matching grants to Atlanta, Chattanooga, Chelsea (MA), Salt Lake City, and West Baltimore. A fourth group of matching grants, focused on arts education and school reform, includes school-based arts programs in New York City and Minnesota and a national arts education initiative led by the Getty Education Institute for the Arts. Taken together, Annenberg funds are supporting reform work in close to 2,700 schools, covering over 300 districts and virtually every state in the country. This number includes the approximately 250 schools in which the Annenberg Institute is carrying out programs, the 750 schools that are part of the New American Schools, and the nearly 1,700 schools currently receiving funds through Challenge matching grants. Schools receiving support come in all types and sizes: they range from a network of small, new charter schools in rural Colorado to seventy-five-year-old, large high schools in the nation's biggest urban districts; from demonstrably failing schools to celebrity schools well on the way to success. The students attending these schools are, by and large, poor and minority. A local board - drawn from local foundations, universities, community groups, business leaders, people working in schools, and those active in local reform - and a small staff lead the work for each matching grant. Partnering with these local leaders to stimulate and support work in schools are a broad array of organizations and institutions: local nonprofit groups skilled in school reform, arts and cultural institutions, universities, and national school reform networks. A small, national office housed at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University knits together the work of these matching grants. It promotes sharing and learning among Annenberg grant recipients and oversees the research component of the Challenge. It provides technical assistance where needed and acts as a liaison between the Annenberg Foundation and grantees. Furthermore, it prepares various publications examining the diverse efforts underlying the Annenberg Challenge. |
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