Ministers have announced extra funding for 84 schools in 20 localauthorities, as reported in Children Now last month (7-13September).
The new programme will require all the schools to draw up an action planthat outlines how they plan to introduce mentoring, improve teaching,increase parental involvement and tackle bad behaviour.
It will build on the African-Caribbean Achievement Project, whichpiloted projects at 30 schools across England.
Junior schools minister Lord Andrew Adonis said: "The experience ofthese pilots has shown the project is highly effective in providingexamples of good practice that can be used in other schools."
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