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Tampa county gets $15m to aid poor schools
By JANET ZINK
Published June 2, 2007
The Hillsborough County school district will receive more than $15-million over the next five years to help teachers and administrators in high-poverty schools. The U.S. Department of Education announced the award Thursday. Lake, Orange and Miami-Dade counties also will receive money through President Bush's Teacher Incentive Fund. In Hillsborough, the money will pay for the district's new Performance Optimized With Effective Rewards (POWER) program, which serves 116 needy schools. In addition to putting money in teacher's pockets, the grant will be used to recruit teachers to high-risk schools, pay for professional development programs and create a database to determine which teachers are entitled to bonuses through a state program that offers awards based on student performance. The district already offers pay incentives to people who work in high-needs schools. The federal grant will supplement that program, superintendent MaryEllen Elia said.
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by Rockie
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06/13/07 10:30 PM
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What about the bus drivers who carry these 60 students to these same schools and back home again, with there backs turned to the students.
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