LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Federal education officials are sending more than $5 million to Little Rock as part of a new magnet schools program.
Officials with the U.S. Department of Education said Tuesday that the Little Rock School Board would receive $5,804,522 as part of the Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP).
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The Little Rock grant was one of 12 announced Tuesday that saw the program award more than $65 million in MSAP grants.
Education officials said these grants are designed to fund programs that promote desegregation, foster community collaboration and increase academic achievement & family engagement.
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In the announcement, U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona called diversity “America’s superpower” and pledged that the new grants would improve both “academic achievement and educational equity.”…