Achieving the Goals: Goal 4 Teacher Professional Development: Equity

A r c h i v e d I n f o r m a t i o n

Achieving the Goals: Goal 4 Teacher Professional Development - August 1996

Equity

* - designates programs that have a particular usefulness at the school or school district level

Magnet Schools Assistance in Desegregating Districts*

Assists eligible local education agencies and consortia of these agencies in planning, establishing, and operating magnet schools that are part of an approved desegregation plan and that are designed to bring together students from different social, economic, and racial backgrounds. Local educational agencies and consortia of these agencies.

Janice Williams-Madison
U.S. Department of Education
Equity and Educational Excellence Division Director
Room 4500, Portals Building, SW
Washington, DC 20202
Phone: (202) 260-3697

Programs to Encourage Minority Students to Become Teachers

Supports projects to develop a new minority teaching program to increase the number of minority individuals, including language minority individuals, teaching profession. Institutions of higher education may apply for this program.

Janice Wilcox
U.S. Department of Education
Division of Higher Education Incentive Programs
Portals Building, Room C-80, SW
Washington, DC 20202
Phone: (202) 260-3207

Women's Educational Equity Program*

Promotes educational equity for women and girls including those who suffer multiple discrimination based on gender and race, ethnic origin, disability or age. Through development and dissemination of model education programs and materials, this program enables local education agencies to meet the requirements of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The program awards two types of grants: (1) grants to implement effective gender-equity policies and programs in schools; and (2) grants to research and develop model gender equity programs.

Carolyn Andrews
U.S. Department of Education
OESE, Equity and Educational Excellence Division
Room 4500 Portals Buildings
Washington, DC 20202-6140
Telephone: (202) 260-2670.
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