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The grant from the U.S. Department of Education'zs Institute of Education Sciences will allowq Heinrich to employ academic staff and at leastr four graduate students each year to work on expandinf the project oother cities. Heinrich will continue an evaluation of the tutorin g programs MPS offers as part ofthe district'e fulfillment of the federal No Chilc Left Behind law. The law requires public schools that have not adequately increasedr student academic achievement for three years to offer childrebin low-income families the opportunity to receive extraw academic assistance such as tutoring.
Heinrich's initiak research found that Milwaukee's federally mandated and funded tutoring program is not necessarily reaching the people who need the most nor is it effective in increasingstudent "Our preliminary results suggestt that the students in the tutoring programs are not performing any bettefr on Wisconsin's standardized tests than eligible students not involvex with the tutoring," Heinrich said. Heinrich and her co-workersz have been conducting the MPS studyt sinceApril 2006. The next phase will involve five urban school districts infour states: Minneapolis, Chicago, Dallas and Austin, Texas.