Children First Fund/CPS Grant



Organization - Children First Fund/CPS
Grant Amount - $1,500,000
Foundation - Chicago Community Trust
Grant Purpose - to support a jointly-designed and funded (CPS/Trust) project to further intensify and develop the best models of area-based university partnerships supporting literacy improvement of whole schools and to increase and track the number of qualified teachers with reading endorsements to function as school and area-based literacy leaders


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