Progress Report 2015
EXPANDING
PARTNERSHIP IN
EASTERN KENTUCKY
During
the
2013-2014
Next
Generation
Initiative
(ARI),
provides
$30,000,000
to
Leadership Academy, a strong and powerful
support improving educational outcomes
partnership developed between the UK
for students in the KVEC districts of eastern
College of Education and the Kentucky Valley
Kentucky, which are some of the poorest
Education Cooperative (KVEC). KVEC, one
school districts in the nation. Over the four-
of eight regional cooperatives in Kentucky,
year award period, the University of Kentucky
is a consortium of public school districts in
will provide professional development to
the Kentucky Valley region. KVEC provides
400 leaders and teachers through a Next
professional learning and other coordinated
Generation Leadership Academy designed
support services to eighteen districts in the
specifically for the seventeen KVEC districts
heart of Appalachia. This partnership led to
participating in ARI. This work is supported by
the successful application of a federal Race
a sub-grant award of $1,760,000 from KVEC to
to the Top District grant. This Race to the Top
the UK College of Education.
initiative, called the Appalachian Renaissance
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