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County School District No. 50", "Amount":"$1,680,829", "Description":"To implement a plan for proficiency-based pathways and anywhere/anytime learning", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Adams County School District No. 50", "Amount":"$93,452", "Description":"To implement a plan for proficiency-based pathways and anywhere/anytime learning", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Advanced Programs Initiative, Inc.", "Amount":"$80,000", "Description":"To support collaboration between the superintendents and Secretary Hanna Skandera to work together toward the common goal of improving educational outcomes for New Mexico children", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Allegheny Intermediate Unit", "Amount":"$23,000", "Description":"To fund the 2011 Regional Best Practices Summer Institute, a collaborative effort between the Allegheny Intermediate Unit representing suburban Allegheny County school districts and Pittsburgh Public Schools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools", "Amount":"$50,000", "Description":"To integrate standards-based online digital content for core academic subjects for 620 ninth and tenth grade students at two Alliance high schools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools", "Amount":"$7,090,167", "Description":"To support a cohort of Intensive Partnership Sites to improve teacher effectiveness to transform outcomes for low-income, minority students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Amarillo Area Foundation Inc.", "Amount":"$1,300,000", "Description":"To fund the implementation phase of the Partners for Postsecondary Success project to increase completion rates in Texas", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"American Association of Community Colleges", "Amount":"$999,732", "Description":"To comprehensively examine the challenges and opportunities facing the fastest-growing sector of higher education", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"American Association of School Administrators, Inc.", "Amount":"$417,697", "Description":"To create a website that provides analysis from the user's perspective of the most prevalent student information and learning management systems", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"American Council on Education", "Amount":"$363,832", "Description":"To support a planning phase coordinated by ACE and the Council of Regional Accrediting Commissions to establish a Commission on Accreditation for the 21st Century", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"American Federation Of Teachers Educational Foundation", "Amount":"$1,000,000", "Description":"To assist teachers in understanding and implementing the Common Core State Standards", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"American Federation Of Teachers Educational Foundation", "Amount":"$230,000", "Description":"To provide conference support for the conference on teacher development and evaluation systems", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences", "Amount":"$2,400,000", "Description":"To support a multi-method study including analysis of secondary data to determine relative benefits of different PS credentials and mapping of competencies with labor market value to credentialing systems", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences", "Amount":"$380,281", "Description":"To inform policy-makers on the high cost of student and institutional failure in two-year colleges and build dialogue on institutional and student performance and provide success stories of two-year colleges on retention, completion, and careers", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Americas Promise-The Alliance For Youth", "Amount":"$500,000", "Description":"To establish the Common Core Action Team Collaborative", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Americas Promise-The Alliance For Youth", "Amount":"$50,000", "Description":"To survey disconnected youth/young adults and to produce a national report", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Arizona State University", "Amount":"$2,214,470", "Description":"To support further development and scaling of Atlantis Remixed - an online, multi-player, game-based learning environment", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Arizona State University Foundation for A New American University", "Amount":"$151,019", "Description":"To support the 3rd Annual Education Innovation Network Summit", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Asia Society", "Amount":"$2,494,277", "Description":"To implement a plan for proficiency-based pathways and anywhere/anytime learning", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Asia Society", "Amount":"$122,981", "Description":"To implement a plan for proficiency-based pathways and anywhere/anytime learning", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Asian and Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund", "Amount":"$25,000", "Description":"To provide conference support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Aspire Public Schools", "Amount":"$50,000", "Description":"To implement a digital writing module in a high school classroom, in order to measure the impact of blended learning strategies on student writing assessments and teacher sustainability", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Aspire Public Schools", "Amount":"$9,490,475", "Description":"To support a cohort of Intensive Partnership Sites to improve teacher effectiveness to transform outcomes for low-income, minority students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Association of Community College Trustees", "Amount":"$49,995", "Description":"To provide conference support for the Association of Community College Trustees 2011 Annual Leadership Congress", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities", "Amount":"$351,129", "Description":"To fund a plan for instructional improvement, cost reduction and increased transfer and degree completion rates through redesign of key courses for use on multiple community college and university campuses", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Battelle For Kids", "Amount":"$1,307,738", "Description":"To support the scaling of effective teaching practices among members of the Ohio Appalachian Collaborative", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Battelle Memorial Institute", "Amount":"$420,002", "Description":"To implement math and literacy instructional tools in the Ohio STEM Learning Network", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Boone County Schools", "Amount":"$334,100", "Description":"To expand the implementation of Literacy Design Collaborative and Mathematics Design Collaborative tools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Boston Public Schools", "Amount":"$12,000", "Description":"To support Boston Public Schools in its collaborative work with high-performing CMOs in the city", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Boyle County Schools", "Amount":"$86,000", "Description":"To expand the implementation of Literacy Design Collaborative and Mathematics Design Collaborative tools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Brookings Institution", "Amount":"$494,826", "Description":"To establish standards for rating teacher evaluation systems", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Brookings Institution", "Amount":"$600,000", "Description":"To examine personalized learning, real-time student assessment, collaboration and social networking, dashboards, and K-12 innovation success stories with the goal of evaluating progress, improving implementation, and sharing best practices", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Cabrillo College Foundation", "Amount":"$400,000", "Description":"To support a third party evaluation of the Academy for College Excellence program", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Campus Compact", "Amount":"$3,282,956", "Description":"To fund the planning and implementation phases of the Connect to Complete program", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Campus Compact", "Amount":"$45,000", "Description":"To support the Scholar to Scholars Program Conference", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Carnegie Mellon University", "Amount":"$959,082", "Description":"To support continued development of the Working Examples website - www.workingexamples.org", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Center for Education Reform", "Amount":"$600,000", "Description":"To support Phase II of the Media Bullpen and to advance charter policy advocacy work in five states", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Center for Effective Philanthropy, Inc.", "Amount":"$2,000,000", "Description":"To provide support for YouthTruth: Using Student Feedback to Guide Foundation and School Improvement", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Center for Reform of School Systems Inc.", "Amount":"$27,890", "Description":"To provide board training sessions for the Shelby County Consolidated School Board", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Charter Fund Inc dba Charter School Growth Fund", "Amount":"$1,250,000", "Description":"To support a lending pool of capital to fund the expansion of high-performing charter networks in high-need areas and to support the management of the CSGF Facilities Fund", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"College Entrance Examination Board", "Amount":"$379,500", "Description":"To develop a series of recommendations to improve sustainability of the Pell grant program", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Colorado Department of Higher Education", "Amount":"$1,000,000", "Description":"To support state efforts to significantly increase college completion and close attainment gaps for traditionally underrepresented populations", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Colorado Education Initiative", "Amount":"$9,707,210", "Description":"To provide organizational support to the Colorado Legacy Foundation related to implementation of the Common Core State Standards & teacher development and evaluation systems", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Colorado League of Charter Schools", "Amount":"$818,471", "Description":"To support integration of college ready tools in high-performing CMOs in Colorado and Louisiana", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Colorado Nonprofit Development Center", "Amount":"$100,000", "Description":"To advance collaboration between Denver Public Schools and high performing CMOs in the city", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Colorado Seminary", "Amount":"$279,534", "Description":"To plan a partnership with an urban school district to develop algorithms that link professional development recommendations to student and teacher performance", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Community Service Society of New York", "Amount":"$50,000", "Description":"To support a study that will aid in understanding if the low income young adult population is experiencing diminishing opportunity for enrollment in community colleges in New York", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Computers for Youth Foundation, Inc.", "Amount":"$4,999,767", "Description":"To support Computers for Youth's PowerMyLearning.com product, which will be available to all U.S. K-12 schools and districts to enable students to follow a more personalized pathway to college success", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Consortium for Educational Change", "Amount":"$2,025,622", "Description":"To work with regional Teacher Union Reform Networks to collaboratively engage teachers, their unions, and school and district administrators in issues that impact teaching and learning", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Consortium for School Networking", "Amount":"$566,023", "Description":"To create a website that provides analysis of the most prevalent student information systems and learning management systems technologies with a focus on the user perspective", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Council of Chief State School Officers", "Amount":"$9,388,911", "Description":"To support the Common Core State Standards work", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Council of Chief State School Officers", "Amount":"$743,331", "Description":"To support capacity building at SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) regarding assessment framework development and higher education engagement", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Council of State Governments", "Amount":"$369,623", "Description":"To hold summits to inform and educate state legislators on the common core standards and assessments and the benefits for implementation in their states", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Council Of The Great City Schools", "Amount":"$5,511,184", "Description":"To promote and coordinate successful implementation of the new common core standards in major urban public school systems nationwide", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Creative 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{"Name":"Daviess County Public Schools", "Amount":"$300,000", "Description":"To expand the implementation of Literacy Design Collaborative and Mathematics Design Collaborative tools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"DC Public Education Fund", "Amount":"$4,353,830", "Description":"To support the continued development of the Teacher Data and Professional Development Platform", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"DC Public Education Fund", "Amount":"$2,241,989", "Description":"To help school systems train those who observe classrooms to do so reliably", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"DC Public Education Fund", "Amount":"$100,000", "Description":"For general operating support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Demos: A Network for Ideas & Action", "Amount":"$250,000", "Description":"To conduct national research and outreach to educate key stakeholders about the financial barriers confronting community college students and to investigate and publicize the potential of specific policy solutions to increase completion rates among community college students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Denver Public Schools", "Amount":"$330,008", "Description":"To conduct research related to the support of effective teaching practices", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Denver Public Schools", "Amount":"$1,100,000", "Description":"To execute effective teaching strategies to improve multiple low-performing schools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Denver School of Science and Technology Inc", "Amount":"$50,000", "Description":"To develop a digital content incubator that integrates 9th grade standard-aligned digital content into existing student achievement management software", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"DonorsChoose.org", "Amount":"$100,000", "Description":"To support teachers' classroom projects", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"DonorsChoose.org", "Amount":"$350,000", "Description":"To conduct outreach and provide incentives to inspire public school teachers to engage with the Teacher Wall project", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"E.L. Haynes Public Charter School", "Amount":"$50,000", "Description":"To integrate online math and reading applications to close the achievement gap for students at E.L. Haynes Public Charter School", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Editorial Projects in Education Inc", "Amount":"$2,000,000", "Description":"To support the development of a new coverage area focusing on the education industry and innovation in K-12 education", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"EdSurge Inc.", "Amount":"$100,000", "Description":"To conduct a detailed analysis of prominent K-8 literacy and math content vendors for use in blended learning models and to disseminate findings broadly via a white paper and an online database", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Education Resource Strategies, Inc.", "Amount":"$250,000", "Description":"To develop a policy paper on the professional growth spending for teachers and school leaders, create Professional Growth Strategic Resource tools and materials, and write case studies on the use of 'next generation' professional growth", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Education Sector Inc", "Amount":"$929,108", "Description":"To explore and highlight policies at the state level that prevent greater use of innovation, technology, and competency-based education", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Educause", "Amount":"$8,307,407", "Description":"To support Wave IIIa of the Next Generation Learning Challenges, which will provide launch funding to new schools that leverage technology to personalize learning in a financially sustainable manner", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Educause", "Amount":"$354,608", "Description":"To support the inventory of the provider-user marketplace, building an awareness and outreach plan around analytics, establishing a solid understanding of institutional readiness, capacity and desire to build out data analytics, learning analytic", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Educause", "Amount":"$9,636,676", "Description":"To support three rounds of grants in Wave III of the Next Generation Learning Challenges, accelerating development of next generation school and college models that leverage technology to increase student success at equal or below current costs", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Educause", "Amount":"$6,861,999", "Description":"To assist with the design of Wave 2 of the Next Generation Learning Challenges, marketing it to the field, recruiting applicants and advisors, and processing applications", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Educurious Partners", "Amount":"$5,482,457", "Description":"To create next generation models of high school courses for 9th grade Biology, 9th grade English Language Arts, and will undertake an additional 'evaluation agenda' by administering pre/post assessments", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Edvance Foundation", "Amount":"$392,656", "Description":"To support the regional inventory and analysis of fifty states policies and practices in transfer and articulation within independent colleges", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Envision Education Inc", "Amount":"$50,000", "Description":"To expand the use of Khan Academy in order to facilitate the management of learning differences within a Response to Intervention framework and a mastery-based curriculum to ensure all students are successful", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Excelencia in Education", "Amount":"$750,000", "Description":"To continue the Ensuring America's Future by Increasing Latino College Completion initiative", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Fayette County Public Schools", "Amount":"$479,000", "Description":"To expand the implementation of Literacy Design Collaborative and Mathematics Design Collaborative tools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Fiorello H. LaGuardia Community College Foundation", "Amount":"$1,048,143", "Description":"To provide support for the continued operation of the Global Skills for College Completion Project, disseminating knowledge to the broader community college sector, and creating a business/sustainability plan for continued operation of the project", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"FirstLine Schools, Inc.", "Amount":"$39,280", "Description":"To test blended learning model options for differentiated learning through self-paced software programs and to create staff champions before full-scale implementation in August 2012", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"FirstLine Schools, Inc.", "Amount":"$449,300", "Description":"To provide planning support for a hybrid school model incorporating Computer Assisted Instruction into educational programs to enhance student achievement, improve financial sustainability, and move towards a master teacher career track", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Florida Association of District School Superintendents", "Amount":"$950,000", "Description":"To provide technical assistance support to districts in Florida to implement new teacher evaluation systems", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Forsyth County Schools", "Amount":"$250,000", "Description":"To expand the implementation of Literacy Design Collaborative and Mathematics Design Collaborative tools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Foundation for the Seattle Colleges", "Amount":"$2,999,207", "Description":"To improve persistence and completion rates across the Seattle Community College District (SCCD) by supporting 'early momentum' in a student's first year", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Fund for Educational Excellence", "Amount":"$100,000", "Description":"To advance collaboration between Baltimore Public Schools and high performing CMOs in the city", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Fund for Public Schools Inc", "Amount":"$1,168,734", "Description":"To support the implementation of math and literacy instructional tools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Fund for Public Schools Inc", "Amount":"$987,000", "Description":"To support iZone360 schools as they design and implement innovative changes to their schools so as to best support their vision for student-centered learning", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Future is Now", "Amount":"$775,000", "Description":"To support and organize public school teachers in the pursuit of educator-led actions that improve their schools, districts, and unions", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Georgetown University", "Amount":"$10,000", "Description":"For conference support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Grantmakers for Children, Youth, & Families", "Amount":"$20,000", "Description":"To provide conference support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Green Dot Public Schools", "Amount":"$49,996", "Description":"To evaluate the impact of a digital arts elective on the participation rates and learning outcomes of 180 severely credit-deficient high school students (grades 9-12) enrolled in a core-curriculum blended learning program", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Green Dot Public Schools California", "Amount":"$5,664,388", "Description":"To support a cohort of Intensive Partnership Site to improve teacher effectiveness to transform outcomes for low-income, minority students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Guilford Technical Community College", "Amount":"$645,000", "Description":"To fund the planning phase of Completion by Design for the North Carolina cadre", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Harvard University", "Amount":"$500,000", "Description":"To support a strategic planning project for the Graduate School of Education", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Harvard University", "Amount":"$9,950", "Description":"To provide prize money and administrative costs for the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Idea Competition, which is designed to generate new entrepreneurial concepts in the education sector", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Harvard University", "Amount":"$110,000", "Description":"To support the Education Forum on Innovation, which spotlights, supports, and encourages the importance of innovation in education", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"High Tech High Foundation", "Amount":"$50,000", "Description":"To expand the reach of ALEKS, a professional development resource for math teachers in grades 6-12", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Hillsborough County Council of PTA/PTSAs", "Amount":"$25,000", "Description":"To continue and enhance its parent advocacy training modules for Common Core State Standards (CCSS) that were originally created during its Gates-funded National PTA sub-grant in 2010", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Hillsborough County Public Schools", "Amount":"$420,632", "Description":"To expand the implementation of Literacy Design Collaborative and Mathematics Design Collaborative tools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Hope Street Group", "Amount":"$975,000", "Description":"To help implement usable and widely accepted teacher evaluations, leading to a transformed profession and better outcomes for students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Idea Public Schools", "Amount":"$300,000", "Description":"To support the technology requirements for a conversion to a hybrid learning model in IDEA schools for the 2011-2012 school year", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Illinois Network Of Charter Schools", "Amount":"$600,000", "Description":"For general operating support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"iMentor Incorporated", "Amount":"$500,000", "Description":"To support research, development, and scaling of a web-based mentoring program for high school students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Innosight Institute Inc", "Amount":"$652,255", "Description":"To continue to develop Innosight Institute's Education Practice and to move forward in developing and sharing the organization's ideas with K-12 education policymakers and practitioners", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Institute for a Competitive Workforce", "Amount":"$748,667", "Description":"To expand the Leaders and Laggards series to postsecondary education in an effort to measure state performance in educating Americans beyond high school", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education", "Amount":"$70,000", "Description":"To provide post-conference support for the ISKME 2011 Big Ideas Fest including supporting an 'incubation' period for ideas that emerge from the 2011 convening event and supporting up to 10-12 full participant scholarships for the 2012 convening", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Ithaka Harbors Inc.", "Amount":"$275,000", "Description":"To study the potential obstacles to widespread adoption of interactive online learning systems in 2- and 4-year colleges and universities, and recommend strategies to overcome these obstacles", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy Foundation, Inc.", "Amount":"$500,906", "Description":"To create the Hunt Fellows program to develop a strong cadre of state leaders who both care deeply about and have the knowledge and skills to ensure effective policies and practices to support improved educational outcomes", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Jefferson County Public Schools", "Amount":"$210,360", "Description":"To expand the implementation of Literacy Design Collaborative and Mathematics Design Collaborative tools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Jessamine County Schools", "Amount":"$143,600", "Description":"To expand the implementation of Literacy Design Collaborative and Mathematics Design Collaborative tools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Jessamine County Schools", "Amount":"$300,000", "Description":"To expand the implementation of Literacy Design Collaborative and Mathematics Design Collaborative tools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Jobs for the Future Inc.", "Amount":"$497,499", "Description":"To plan for the launch of a network to scale College Ready tools, practices, and policies and promote K-12 and post-secondary linkages as exemplified in early college high school best practices", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Jobs for the Future Inc.", "Amount":"$697,310", "Description":"To manage an institute on proficiency-based pathways", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Jobs for the Future Inc.", "Amount":"$400,000", "Description":"To support additional funding of Back on Track to PSE First Year Success", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Jobs for the Future Inc.", "Amount":"$47,000", "Description":"For conference support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Jobs for the Future Inc.", "Amount":"$295,000", "Description":"To update policy scans through the lens of completion and work with policy leads to design and launch policy strategy for each state", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education", "Amount":"$1,231,754", "Description":"To improve and expand the early alert system and learner relationship management of the Signals product", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Kenton County School District", "Amount":"$300,000", "Description":"To expand the implementation of Literacy Design Collaborative and Mathematics Design Collaborative tools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Kenton County School District", "Amount":"$300,000", "Description":"To expand the implementation of Literacy Design Collaborative and Mathematics Design Collaborative tools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Kentucky Chamber Foundation, Inc.", "Amount":"$476,553", "Description":"To lead a coalition in support of college- and career-ready standards and effective teaching in Kentucky", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Khan Academy Inc.", "Amount":"$4,079,361", "Description":"To develop the remaining K-12 math exercises to ensure full coverage of the Common Core math standards and form a small team to implement a blended learning model", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Kipp Adelante Preparatory Academy", "Amount":"$23,476", "Description":"To launch a blended learning program that fuses technology and English Language Arts through the use of simulations, interactive games, and intelligent cyber tutors that increase capacity to improve instruction, learning, and assessment", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"KIPP Bay Area Schools", "Amount":"$50,000", "Description":"To expand the use of Khan Academy's adaptive software platform for self-paced individualized and mastery-based learning", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"KIPP Chicago Schools", "Amount":"$49,500", "Description":"To provide personalized learning plans and instruction to 150 students in grades K-1 and 5-8 at KIPP Ascend Primary and KIPP Ascend Middle schools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"KIPP DC INC", "Amount":"$42,500", "Description":"To support the expansion of an innovative, blended learning program designed to close the achievement gap between Special Education and non-Special Education students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"KIPP Foundation", "Amount":"$170,000", "Description":"To provide general operating support for the KIPP Foundation", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"KIPP LA Schools", "Amount":"$50,000", "Description":"To integrate cutting-edge educational software programs and innovative technology practices in KIPP LA's three schools in South and East Los Angeles to differentiate instruction to meet the diverse learning needs of students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"KIPP LA Schools", "Amount":"$100,000", "Description":"To support systems integration of the Blended Learning Infrastructure ('BLI') in KIPP Empower Academy ('KEA') in Los Angeles for the 2011-12 school year", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"KIPP Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc", "Amount":"$47,810", "Description":"To implement Rosetta Stone for high school Spanish classes and Achieve3000 for middle school literacy intervention classes", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"KIPP New Orleans Inc", "Amount":"$50,000", "Description":"To support a blended learning program aimed at enhancing academic growth school wide, and providing supplementary intervention for students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13", "Amount":"$785,194", "Description":"To expand the implementation of Literacy Design Collaborative and Mathematics Design Collaborative tools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"League For Innovation in the Community College", "Amount":"$354,089", "Description":"To support Next Generation Learning Challenges Impact Strategies", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"League For Innovation in the Community College", "Amount":"$958,474", "Description":"To assess the ability of community colleges to utilize social media tools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"League For Innovation in the Community College", "Amount":"$26,184", "Description":"To support the 2011 Innovations Conference", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Learning Forward", "Amount":"$999,795", "Description":"To help align states' and districts' professional development programs in support of implementing the Common Core State Standards", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"LEV Foundation", "Amount":"$1,789,208", "Description":"To support a public awareness campaign and create support for charter schools through a fact-based advocacy effort", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Lighthouse Academies of Indiana Inc.", "Amount":"$50,000", "Description":"To expand Achieve3000 Differentiated Literacy Solution from supplemental intervention to core instructional blocks through a blend of whole group, small group, and online instruction", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Lone Star College System", "Amount":"$644,965", "Description":"To fund the planning phase of Completion by Design for the Texas cadre", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools", "Amount":"$450,000", "Description":"For general operating support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Maryland Higher Education Commission", "Amount":"$1,000,000", "Description":"To support state efforts to significantly increase college completion and close attainment gaps for traditionally underrepresented populations", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Massachusetts Institute of Technology", "Amount":"$3,204,132", "Description":"To develop Cosmos, a multiplayer online game, aligned to the Common Core State Standards and Next Generation Science Standards for high school students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Memphis City Schools", "Amount":"$194,800", "Description":"To disseminate Memphis City Schools' progress and lessons learned regarding current teacher effectiveness work and to access other practitioners' insights about their work", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Memphis City Schools", "Amount":"$399,968", "Description":"To conduct research related to the support of effective teaching practices", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Memphis Urban League, Inc.", "Amount":"$10,000", "Description":"To support a convening to learn more about Tennessee's college completion statute and its impact on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and community colleges that serve largely low income students of color in Tennessee", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Miami Dade College", "Amount":"$644,675", "Description":"To fund the planning phase of Completion by Design for the Florida cadre", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Midwestern Higher Education Commission", "Amount":"$45,030", "Description":"To support a conference, Ready or Not Here They Come: Ensuring the College Success of All Students", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Minneapolis Foundation", "Amount":"$100,000", "Description":"To support the Minneapolis District-Charter Compact collaboration", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Foundation", "Amount":"$49,500", "Description":"For conference support", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Morgridge Institute for Research Inc.", "Amount":"$50,000", "Description":"To support the Games + Learning + Society Conference, a three-day event for games studies/games learning academies, education researchers, education practitioners, policy leaders, and game designers", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"MyCollege Foundation", "Amount":"$3,081,610", "Description":"To establish a nonprofit online college targeting low-income adults", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Association Of Charter School Authorizers", "Amount":"$2,610,000", "Description":"To provide funds, along with related monitoring and support to each Round 2 District-Charter Collaboration Compact city, based upon completion of a compact and submission of an approved Compact grant application", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Association Of Charter School Authorizers", "Amount":"$1,700,000", "Description":"To strengthen the policy environment for quality charter school authorizing through advocacy at the state and federal levels", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Association of State Boards of Education", "Amount":"$1,077,960", "Description":"To build the capacity of State Boards of Education to better position them to achieve full implementation of the Common Core standards", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators", "Amount":"$147,990", "Description":"To study the impact on overall aid distributions if the rules were changed to allow eligibility to be determined based on prior-prior year tax data as opposed to prior year data", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Council of La Raza", "Amount":"$538,967", "Description":"To expand the implementation of Literacy Design Collaborative and Mathematics Design Collaborative tools", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Council on Teacher Quality", "Amount":"$2,935,048", "Description":"To continue the transformative work of improving teacher effectiveness and professionalism at the national, federal, state, and district levels", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Geographic Society", "Amount":"$10,000", "Description":"To support the first Cyberlearning Summit, hosted by the National Geographic Society in partnership with the Center for Technology Innovation at UC Berkeley, and the Center for Technology in Learning at SRI", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"National Geographic Society", "Amount":"$10,000", "Description":"To provide access for students that reside in low-income Washington state neighborhoods to the National Geographic Live! 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"Notes":""}, {"Name":"Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence", "Amount":"$242,580", "Description":"To support implementation of math and literacy strategies in Kentucky by supporting convenings and meetings throughout the state for k-12 and higher education leaders and business leaders", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence", "Amount":"$198,206", "Description":"To help fund the leadership of ReadyKentucky, a campaign focused on creating and supporting a statewide communications network in support of implementation of the common core state standards", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Public Agenda", "Amount":"$520,460", "Description":"To lead the Completion by Design training and actionable research related to effective meeting facilitation and stakeholder engagement", "Notes":""}, {"Name":"Reasoning Mind, Inc.", "Amount":"$742,996", "Description":"To pilot an online mathematics curriculum aligned to the common core standards as a means to providing alternative 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