Texas: TCEP Receives $300, 000 Ford Foundation Grant To Address Latino/a Education Issues

[Francis Hult]

The University of Texas at Austin News

TCEP Receives $300,000 Ford Foundation Grant To Address Latino/a Education Issues

December 18, 2009

The Ford Foundation has awarded the Texas Center for Education Policy (TCEP) $300,000 for the 15-month planning phase of the Teacher Education Institute initiative to be conducted by the National Latino Education Research Agenda Project (NLERAP).

The Teacher Education Institute is a national initiative that will result in a more diverse and highly skilled teacher workforce equipped with best practices for educating Latino/a and language minority youth. The initiative and NLERAP are housed in TCEP under Dr. Angela Valenzuela, associate vice president for school partnerships in the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement at The University of Texas at Austin.

Full story:
http://www.utexas.edu/news/2009/12/18/tcep_latinos_education/
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