Cracked Foundations: Broward County Public Schools (FL)
Investigations
Granting Foundation(s): Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Wallace Foundation, Windward Fund
Grants Total: $1,845,182
US News and World Report Test Score Proficiency:
On July 9, 2015, Broward County Public Schools accepted a grant from the Wallace Foundation for $1,700,000 to participate in the Foundation’s “Principal Supervisors Initiative,” which is one of many initiatives the Foundation has funded to help districts “improve the effectiveness of the administrators who oversee principals.” The Wallace Foundation’s mission is to “foster equity and improvements in learning.”
The school district also received funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for a partnership with Florida International University’s School of Education and Human Development to participate in its math literacy and equity initiative called FLAME. In a reflection statement from FLAME regarding racial justice, the organization states that “no longer, can anyone allow our students to be used as sacrificial lambs to undemocratic engines of oppression.” Continuing, the alliance says, “we are ramping-up our actions to support our students in liberating themselves from that trap.”
Foundation: Wallace Foundation
Date: July 6, 2016 – June 30, 2017
Grant amount: $800,000
Purpose: To continue to participate in Wallace’s Principal Supervisor Institute
Foundation: Wallace Foundation
Date: September 30, 2018
Grant Amount: $500,000
Purpose: To continue participation in Wallace’s Principal Supervisor Insititute
Foundation: Windward Fund
Date: 2020
Grant amount: $355,182
Purpose: Agriculture, Food, Nutrition
Foundation: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Date: May 31, 2021
Grant amount: $100,000
Purpose: To support development of novel resources to accelerate student mastery of algebra
Foundation: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Date: June 30, 2020
Grant amount: $90,000
Purpose: To support college advising
CONSULTANTS
Florida Local Alliance for Math Literacy and Equity
*The 2015 grant from The Wallace Foundation was not included in the total numbers because it was outside the time frame for this project.
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