U.S. Department of Education Awards Twelve Grants to Help Low-Income Students Participate and Succeed in Advanced Placement Courses

The U.S. Department of Education announced today that 12 states and local school districts will receive Advanced Placement Incentives Program grants to help low-income students have greater access to advanced placement courses and to succeed in those courses. The Education Department will award a total of $6.6 million for 2011. These competitive grants are awarded to promising programs, which will help increase student access to rigorous courses in science, technology, engineering or mathematics. All of the grants include at least one persistently lowest-achieving school.

Find out more—see the press release for each awardee:

• Alabama State Department of Education
• Black Hills Special Services Cooperative
• Board of Education of the City of St. Louis
• Charleston County Public Schools
• EASTCONN—Teaching and Learning
• Hawaii Department of Education
• Los Angeles Unified School District
• Lynwood, Calif., Unified School District
• Maryland State Department of Education
• Milwaukee Public Schools
• New York City Department of Education
• School District of Palm Beach County