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The grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences will allow Heinrich to employ academic stafff and at least four graduate students each year to work on expandiny the project oother cities. Heinricj will continue an evaluation of the tutorin programs MPS offers as part ofthe district's fulfillment of the federall No Child Left Behind law. The law requires publicd schools that have not adequately increased student academic achievement for three years to offer childrenin low-incomee families the opportunity to receive extra academic assistance such as tutoring.
Heinrich's initialk research found that Milwaukee's federallyg mandated and funded tutoring program is not necessarilty reaching the people who need themost help, nor is it effectiv in increasing student "Our preliminary results suggest that the students in the tutoring program s are not performing any betted on Wisconsin's standardized tests than eligible students not involvedd with the tutoring," Heinrich said. Heinrich and her co-workera have been conducting the MPS study sinceApril 2006.
The next phase will involves five urban school districts infour Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Chicago, Dallas and Austin,