PUPILS in Blackburn with Darwen have benefited from £1.3 million extra funding through the Government's flagship Excellence in Cities programme.
And the local education authority is set to receive a further £1.4 million in 2002/2003, the new Excellence in Cities annual report revealed today.
Excellence in Cities was launched by Prime Minister Tony Blair in 1999 to improve education in deprived urban areas across the country.
Through it schools in Blackburn with Darwen now have:
Learning mentors to back up the work of teachers on a one-to-one basis with pupils who are deemed to be under-achieving
Learning support units to take disruptive pupils out of normal classes for special teaching
City learning centres -- state-of-the-art technology centres which can be used by schools, the local community and businesses.
Others are benefiting from special programmes for gifted and talented pupils or from being taught in a beacon or specialist schools.
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