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Magnet Schools

The Magnet Schools program provides grants to eligible local educational agencies to establish and operate magnet schools that aim to eliminate, reduce, or prevent minority group isolation in schools while strengthening student achievement.

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PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • The program addresses a compelling problem underscored by numerous studies of educational access and racial segregation. Magnet Schools Assistance is the only Federal program that focuses solely on school desegregation. Further, there are few State and local programs that address the issue, and their support for magnet schools is more limited than that of the Federal program.
  • Previous annual program measures show that magnet schools help reduce minority group isolation. The annual performance measures have now been revised to provide greater detail not only on the reduction of minority group isolation, but also on the academic achievement of students.
  • The Department is developing procedures to post grantee performance data based on GPRA measures on the program website.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Continuing to collect annual and long-term program performance data and use these data to inform technical assistance and funding recommendations.
  • Exploring new strategies and opportunities for evaluating the educational achievement and desegregation impacts of the program.
  • Making program performance information available to the public in a transparent and accessible manner.

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