The Nashville Public Education Foundation has established a $1 million endowment at Vanderbilt University鈥檚 Peabody College to provide professional-development programs to teachers and principals in the metropolitan Nashville, Tenn., public schools.
The foundation鈥檚 gift will help establish a permanent relationship between the college and the 69,000-student district.
鈥淲e believe it鈥檚 important to look for improvements in the education process, and this partnership with Peabody and Vanderbilt will allow us to explore new options,鈥� Pedro E. Garcia, the district鈥檚 director of schools, said in a press release.
A nonprofit organization that is separate from the school district, the foundation has raised more than $4 million during the past 17 years to support instruction in the district.
