Opportunity Fund Budget Grant

Organization: Southern Regional Education Board

Program focus: Opportunity Fund Budget

Purpose: To assist states and systems in developing and implementing policies with potential to help educate many more students.

Amount: $486,000

Summary: Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) will assist southern states in developing carefully crafted, concrete and targeted policies that can be scaled or transferred to bring about changes at the state, higher education system or campus levels to increase higher education attainment rates.

Term of grant: 11/01/2011 through 10/31/2013