Schools in the Highlands and Aberdeen will benefit from a cash boost of almost £2million to help try to close the attainment gap.
The Scottish Government announced that Highland schools would receive £1.2million from the programme, Aberdeen city is due to be handed £635,733, and Argyll and Bute would get £23,895.
Across Scotland, Deputy First Minister John Swinney announced that primary and secondary schools will share £50million in 2018/19 to help close the poverty-related attainment gap.
Mr Swinney said: “Improving the education and life chances of our children and young people is the defining mission of this government.
“Central to this is the Scottish Attainment Challenge which is supporting hundreds of schools to develop approaches to improve literacy, numeracy and health and well-being that raise attainment and help close the poverty-related gap.”
Scottish Labour education spokesman Iain Gray said: “Any funding to try and close Scotland’s shameful attainment gap is of course welcome.
“But the reality is the SNP’s swingeing cuts to school budgets mean this money is often being used to simply maintain basic services, rather than improve attainment.”
