“This is a very exciting opportunity. This will provide a model that all districts in Connecticut can adopt to transform what’s happening in the classroom,” Education Connection Executive Director Danuta Thibodeau said Monday.
“It’s a teacher-instructed class which uses the online learning environment. The teacher leads the course and all the materials are online.”
The program requires the grantees to provide a 20 percent match, which means about $860,000 in this case.
Thibodeau was confident the agency would raise the match and credited collaboration — especially among her agency, the state Department of Education and the state Office of Workforce Competitiveness — with the grant application being so strong.
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