A grant worth nearly $51 million from the U.S. Department of Education will help expand access to charter schools in Nevada, a Las Vegas-based nonprofit announced Tuesday.

Opportunity 180, a nonprofit that says its aim is to improve children’s access to high quality public education, announced the five-year grant is worth $50,869,595. According to fiscal transparency site USAspending.gov, it’s the largest grant ever given by the department to a Nevada nonprofit.

The money will go toward opening or expanding up to 27 charter schools in Nevada that will educate more than 15,400 total students annually, said Tamara Shear, Opportunity 180’s CEO, in an event announcing the grant at Vegas Vista Academy in the northeast valley.

Opportunity 180 held the previous record for a $22 million grant i

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