Gainesville chosen for new national school initiative

GAINESVILLE - The Gainesville School System has been chosen to participate in a new national initiative addressing barriers to learning and teaching.

Only four systems nationwide were chosen for the program.

Thursday in Savannah, the three sponsoring organizations - the American Association of School Administrators, Scholastic and the UCLA Center for Mental Health in Schools - will launch the Learning Supports Collaborative, an initiative that works with school and district leaders to implement comprehensive systems of learning supports. Such systems are designed to address factors affecting childrenâ