The US Departments of Education and Health and Human Services awarded 9 state winners of the Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge Competition. The competition was funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation, the Kresge Foundation, and the Skillman Foundation.
Eventhough Michigan did not win the $500 million, the foundations hope the state will continue to move forward with its vision for early childhood education and work to help children succeed from an early age.
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A Gilesgate-based shop and community facility, Hexham’s Core Music, launches a separate workshop where up to six people will be trained how to repair guitars and make ukuleles. The European Social Fund grant supported the project and has secured funds through the County Durham Communication Foundation to equip the workshop in Burn Lane.