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Year Three: States Lead School Improvement With GOALS 2000

Activity under GOALS 2000 is in its third year, helping schools in more than 4,500 communities across the nation mobilize to improve the future of their children by designing common sense approaches to improve teaching and learning.

States are defining clear academic standards that challenge every student, developing assessments to measure student learning, and strengthening school accountability. Some key facts regarding state participation are:

• Forty-five states have received second-year funds, and local districts in New Hampshire, Oklahoma, and Montana will receive their state's share.

• Nineteen states have comprehensive improvement plans and all of them received third-year funding in July.

• At least 90 percent of second- and third-year GOALS 2000 grants, up from 60 percent for first-year funds, will go to local school districts and schools. This means about $630 million dollars for schools to support their own approaches to improving student achievement.

GOALS 2000 Funding Allocations

  STATE              FY 1994        FY 1995        FY 1996        1997                     FUNDING        FUNDING        FUNDING      ESTIMATES
 TOTAL          $92,400,000   $361,870,000   $339,700,000   $476,000,000 (52 States)  ALABAMA          1,604,625      5,941,766*     5,675,986      7,895,690 ALASKA             460,574      1,547,345      1,437,296      2,015,509 ARIZONA          1,364,600      5,450,582      5,038,557      7,220,860 ARKANSAS           993,175      3,650,495      3,434,819      4,800,139 CALIFORNIA      10,514,198     42,111,705     39,211,219     54,798,617 COLORADO         1,086,789      4,288,514      3,922,624      5,585,002 CONNECTICUT        962,265      3,460,756      3,149,595      4,453,445 DELAWARE           406,278      1,291,544      1,242,928      1,742,164 FLORIDA          4,022,211     15,861,034     14,713,635     20,880,761 GEORGIA          2,358,215      8,959,402      8,515,014     12,097,369 HAWAII             417,745      1,381,641      1,307,668      1,830,605 IDAHO              458,232      1,568,397      1,478,175      2,072,739 ILLINOIS         4,138,448     15,992,571     15,050,826     20,965,086 INDIANA          1,737,392      6,557,145      6,280,894      8,734,445 IOWA               888,162      3,219,618      3,077,877      4,261,417 KANSAS             865,991      3,193,916      3,099,621      4,350,864 KENTUCKY         1,479,642      5,775,274      5,549,490      7,709,898 LOUISIANA        2,064,025      7,968,128      7,642,099     10,577,254 MAINE              506,617      1,647,540      1,535,403      2,147,204 MARYLAND         1,450,703      5,379,938      5,016,113      7,070,017 MASSACHUSETTS    1,884,961      6,990,859      6,242,461      8,845,858 MICHIGAN         3,622,852     14,371,488     13,653,547     19,081,265 MINNESOTA        1,389,913      5,377,078      5,062,092      7,103,635 MISSISSIPPI      1,361,751      5,094,972      4,864,881      6,746,306 MISSOURI         1,694,086      6,525,935      6,132,073      8,574,360 MONTANA            449,712      1,560,150**    1,459,914      2,044,513 NEBRASKA           568,280      1,986,104      1,834,350      2,661,199 NEVADA             410,679      1,419,052      1,303,042      1,868,241 NEW HAMPSHIRE            0      1,290,294**    1,232,612      1,728,084 NEW JERSEY       2,445,502      8,792,536      7,904,169     11,130,562 NEW MEXICO         742,764      2,782,261      2,610,240      3,691,669 NEW YORK         7,166,140     27,112,295     25,358,328     35,384,032 NORTH CAROLINA   2,060,116      7,745,087      7,280,313     10,327,046  NORTH DAKOTA       406,852      1,340,576      1,259,984      1,765,253 OHIO             3,711,499     14,833,684     14,226,873     19,844,608 OKLAHOMA         1,155,879      4,396,613**    4,176,732      5,822,424 OREGON           1,048,333      4,012,392      3,799,963      5,312,803 PENNSYLVANIA     4,070,640     15,529,194     14,464,447     20,258,933 RHODE ISLAND       442,901      1,480,004      1,359,668      1,902,901 SOUTH CAROLINA   1,276,721      4,710,359      4,511,625      6,263,574 SOUTH DAKOTA       427,589      1,412,549      1,309,917      1,836,220 TENNESSEE        1,680,252      6,387,802      5,999,453      8,432,635 TEXAS            7,286,644     29,228,278     27,187,479     38,181,903 UTAH               710,199      2,587,039      2,452,958      3,429,258 VERMONT            407,301      1,272,847      1,225,743      1,717,476 VIRGINIA                 0      6,658,924*     6,200,305      8,704,627 WASHINGTON       1,583,754      6,328,974      6,056,946      8,492,110 WEST VIRGINIA      779,620      2,799,259      2,788,423      3,829,992 WISCONSIN        1,685,573      6,582,097      6,320,177      8,806,412 WYOMING            370,640      1,262,907      1,224,150      1,715,593 DIST. OF COLUMBIA  477,300      1,523,409      1,353,218      1,895,093 PUERTO RICO      2,381,661      9,608,968      9,064,078     12,632,327  AMERICAN SAMOA      44,917        184,247        173,864        247,560  GUAM                47,455        194,658        183,688        137,787 NORTHERN MARIANAS   25,000        102,549         96,770        261,548 PALAU               25,000        102,549         79,187        510,788 VIRGIN ISLANDS      92,677        380,157        358,733         52,791 MARSHALL ISLANDS    25,000        102,549         96,770        137,787 MICRONESIA          73,729        302,433        285,389        406,357 BIA, AFN           586,222      2,249,558      2,125,600      3,005,382  * Did not apply for second-year funding; however, on August 22, 1996, the Alabama State Board of Education did vote to participate in GOALS 2000.  ** Local districts in these states will receive directly from the Department of Education their state's share of 1995 GOALS 2000 funds. 

[The GOALS 2000 Partnership]