Since rural schools don't have the same access to private funding as their urban counterparts, the Kellogg and Walmart foundations have committed $9 million to help provide required matching money for rural schools' Investing in Innovation (i3) applications to the U.S. Department of Education. Private donors have provided $500 million for a fund for all schools, to be paired with $650 million the department has allocated for the competitive grant program, it says in a news release.
The $500 million of private donations will be allocated in three broad categories: innovation in classroom funds, innovation in school model funds and sustainability of these innovations funds. In addition to the $9 million for rural application's private matching funds, the Rural School and Community Trust will providing technical assistance to rural communities to help them apply for i3 funding through a grant from the Kellogg Foundation. You can see our previous report on that program here.
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