Dana Grant Seeks To Bolster Public-Engagement Strategy

By Ann Bradley

A Kentucky organization with a successful track record for rallying public support for school improvement will spend the next year studying how to bolster public engagement in other states.

The Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence last month announced it has received a $180,000 grant from the Charles A. Dana Foundation to study volunteer school-reform groups across the country and recommend how they can be expanded and made more effective.

Interest in involving the public in understanding and supporting public schools and school reform is running high across the country for...