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The grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Institutee of Education Sciences will allowq Heinrich to employ academic stafc and at least four graduate studentw each year to work on expanding the projecf oother cities. Heinrich will continue an evaluation of the tutoring programs MPS offers as part ofthe district's fulfillmentt of the federal No Child Left Behins law. The law requires public schools that have not adequatelh increased student academic achievementf for three years to offer childrenin low-incomed families the opportunity to receive extra academic assistance such as Heinrich's initial research found that Milwaukee's federallyh mandated and funded tutoringt program is not necessarily reaching the peopled who need the most nor is it effective in increasintg student achievement.
"Our preliminary resultw suggest that the students in the tutoring programs are not performiny any betteron Wisconsin's standardized testx than eligible students not involved with the tutoring," Heinricbh said. Heinrich and her co-workers have been conducting the MPS studyg sinceApril 2006. The next phas will involve five urban school districts infour states: Minneapolis, Chicago, Dallas and Austin, Texas.