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USDE: Smaller Learning Communities Program

The Smaller Learning Communities (SLC) program awards discretionary grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) to support the implementation of SLCs and activities to improve student academic achievement in large public high schools with enrollments of 1,000 or more students. SLCs include structures such as freshman academies, multi-grade academies organized around career interests or other themes, “houses” in which small groups of students remain together throughout high school, and autonomous schools-within-a-school, as well as personalization strategies, such as student advisories, family advocate systems, and mentoring programs.

Types of Projects

Grants are awarded for up to 60 months to LEAs (Local Education Agencies) that apply on behalf of large public high schools. Projects integrate the implementation or expansion of SLCs with improvements in curriculum and instruction, and other activities to raise student academic achievement.

School Plans (by cohort)

Cohort 3	Banning HS Cleveland HS Monroe HS

Cohort 4	Birmingham HS Carson HS Fremont HS Narbonne HS Polytechnic HS Roosevelt HS

Cohort 5	Canoga HS Grant HS Huntington Park HS Lincoln HS Los Angeles HS Manual Arts HS Marshal HS San Pedro HS Sylm ar HS Washington Prep HS

Cohort 6	Bell HS Chatsworth HS Francis Polytechnic HS Franklin HS Locke HS Monroe HS Roosevelt HS Van Nuys HS Westchester HS

Cohort 8	Fairfax HS Reseda HS South Gate HS

Additional Information

The Smaller Learning Communities Awards Database contains additional information about the schools listed above including narrative profiles, implementation, and demographic information.

The SLC program is authorized under Title V, Part D, Subpart 4 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) (20 U.S.C. 7249), as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.

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