Georgia is the latest Race to the Top winner to devote some of the federal money to improving STEM education. Governor Nathan Deal announced that he’s giving out $19 million to schools and programs that focus on science, mathematics, engineering and technology — and help better prepare educators to teach those subjects, the Augusta Chronicle reported.

Charter schools received several grants. For example, Charles R. Drew Charter School in Atlanta will get $1 million to partner with Georgia State University and Georgia Tech to create one of the state’s first schools focused on science, math, technology and arts.

Teach for Georgia, a teacher pipeline program modeled after Teach for America, will get $1 million to recruit Georgia Tech students majoring in STEM subjects to be teachers in rural Georgia districts. Three school districts–White, Hall and Lumpkin counties–will form a partnership with North Georgia College & State University to create a STEM charter school with a $50,000 planning grant.

The Knowledge is Power Program charter school teacher fellowship will get $1 million to train Georgia State University and Mercer University College of Education graduates and then deploy them to metro Atlanta schools where they are most needed.

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