Districts join push to improve tutoring.

Districts join push to improve tutoring. Two urban districts--Memphis City Schools and Anchorage Anchorage(ăng`kərĭj), city (1990 pop. 226,338), Anchorage census div., S central Alaska, a port at the head of Cook Inlet; inc. 1920. SchoolDistrict--will join Boston and Chicago schools Chicago SchoolGroup of architects and engineers who in the 1890s exploited the twin developments of structural steel framing and the electrified elevator, paving the way for the ubiquitous modern-day skyscraper. in a pilot program thisyear to improve the quality and delivery of free tutoring to strugglingstudents. A second pilot program last year that gave four districts inVirginia Virginia, state, United StatesVirginia,state of the south-central United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), North Carolina and Tennessee (S), Kentucky and West Virginia (W), and Maryland and the District of Columbia (N and NE). the chance to offer supplemental educational services, ortutoring, in schools in the first year of needing improvement was alsoextended. This year, some districts in Alaska, Delaware Delaware, state, United StatesDelaware(dĕl`əwâr, –wər), one of the Middle Atlantic states of the United States, the country's second smallest state (after Rhode Island). , Indiana, andNorth Carolina North Carolina,state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N).Facts and FiguresArea, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. can offer SES in the first year of needing improvement. The extension stems from the success of the original pilots, whichaim to increase student participation in SES offered under No Child LeftBehind. Only 10-20 percent of eligible students nationwide took freetutoring in 2003-2004. The first pilot allows Memphis, Anchorage, Boston and Chicagodistricts in need of improvement to provide tutoring. The originalintent of the law barred districts in need of improvement from providingtutoring themselves and stipulated that they had to provide privatetutoring.