{"id":930,"date":"2011-08-23T11:52:26","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T15:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=930"},"modified":"2011-08-23T11:52:26","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T15:52:26","slug":"hillsborough-wins-principal-development-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/08\/23\/hillsborough-wins-principal-development-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillsborough Wins Principal Development Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_931\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 256px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/08\/wallacefoundation.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-931\" title=\"wallacefoundation\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/08\/wallacefoundation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/08\/wallacefoundation.jpg 256w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/08\/wallacefoundation-220x133.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">The Wallace Foundation<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hillsborough County has won another national <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wallacefoundation.org\/view-latest-news\/PressRelease\/Pages\/The-Wallace-Foundation-Launches-Major-Principal-Pipeline-Initiative-to-Help-School-Districts-Build-Corps.aspx\">education grant<\/a>, this time to improve principal training.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wallacefoundation.org\/Pages\/default.aspx\">Wallace Foundation<\/a> announced Hillsborough was one of six districts to share a $75 million, six-year grant. Districts will receive $7.5 million to $12.5 million to develop programs in four areas: rigorous job requirements, high-quality training, selective hiring, and on-the-job evaluation and support.<\/p>\n<p>The six districts are urban with a significant low-income population: Charlotte-Mecklenburg in North Carolina; Denver; Gwinnett County, Ga. in the Atlanta suburbs; New  York City; and Prince George&#8217;s County, Md. in the Washington, D.C. suburbs.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace will cover two-thirds of the funding, while the districts must cover the final third. Hillsborough won a $100 million <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/tag\/the-gates-grant\/\">Gates Foundation grant<\/a> in 2009 to design teacher and administrator evaluations and a <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/tag\/merit-pay\/\">pay-for-performance system<\/a>. Wallace officials said in a press release they chose the six districts because they already had programs to groom principals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hillsborough County has won another national education grant, this time to improve principal training. The Wallace Foundation announced Hillsborough was one of six districts to share a $75 million, six-year grant. Districts will receive $7.5 million to $12.5 million to develop programs in four areas: rigorous job requirements, high-quality training, selective hiring, and on-the-job evaluation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[1011,1007,1063,1016],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}