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Education Foundation gets grant for Opportunity Culture®

From OA Online, April 16, 2020

The Education Foundation of Odessa announced Thursday that it has received a $500,000 grant from The Prentice Farrar Brown & Alline Ford Brown Foundation to support the implementation of Opportunity Culture® in Ector County ISD beginning in the 2020-2021 academic year.

This grant will be payable over 36 months, a news release said.

ECISD and Midland ISD are introducing Opportunity Culture®, an innovative approach to staffing that multiplies the impact of highly effective teachers, thereby improving student performance. Read the full article…

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