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Guilford County School has applied for more than $17 million in federal grants to help it achieve goals contained in the district's strategic plan.

One application is to the Teacher Incentive Fund for $12.5 million to support individual and school-wide incentive programs. A separate grant of $5 million from "Investing in Innovation" or i3 would be directed toward plan goals in recruitment, retention and employee development.

“The Strategic Plan calls for staff to put strategies in place that will lead to increases in student achievement, and educators are the greatest factor impacting student success,” said Amy Holcombe, executive director of talent development. “At least 80 percent of our budget is devoted to people. An investment in educators is an investment in our students.”

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