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The grant from the U.S. Department of Education'es Institute of Education Sciences will alloe Heinrich to employ academicc staff and at leasg four graduate students each year to work on expanding the project o other Heinrich will continue an evaluation of the tutoring programws MPS offers as part ofthe district's fulfillment of the federal No Child Left Behind law. The law requires publicx schools that have not adequately increased student academi c achievement for three years to offer childrenin low-income families the opportunity to receive extra academic assistanc e such as tutoring.
Heinrich'sz initial research found that Milwaukee's federally mandater and funded tutoring prograj is not necessarily reachingv the people who need the most nor is it effective in increasingstudent achievement. "Our preliminary resulte suggest that the students in the tutoring programw are not performing any betteron Wisconsin'sw standardized tests than eligible students not involved with the Heinrich said. Heinrich and her co-workers have been conducting the MPS study sinceApril 2006. The next phass will involve five urban schoolp districts infour states: Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Chicago, Dallaz and Austin, Texas.