When Gainesville Superintendent Merrianne Dyer applied the city school system for a grant program tying it to “unified and comprehensive systems of learning support,” she could not envision that, five years later, an entire state would be adopting that same support structure, in part due to the city’s success in the program. In fact, she almost didn’t apply for the program at all. “When the proposal came out, I looked at it,” Dyer said.