Race to the Top Fund
The $4.35 billion Race to the Top Fund is the largest ever federal competitive investment in school reform. It will reward states for past accomplishments and create incentives for future improvements. Individual states apply. The four priority areas to drive school improvement are listed below.
Indiana's Executive RTT Summary has been released. See pages 2-3 for a list of stakeholder meetings in your community December and January. Indiana needs to demonstrate community support in order to win $250M or more for our state. Download a sample support letter to send to Indiana Department of Education.
• Adopting internationally benchmarked standards and assessments that
prepare students for success in college and the workplace;
• Recruiting, developing, retaining, and rewarding effective teachers
and principals;
• Building data systems that measure student success and inform
teachers and principals how they can improve their practices; and
• Turning around our lowest-performing schools.
Click here to link to the fact sheet
Investing in Innovation Fund
The program will support efforts to bring to scale educational practices with significant evidence of success in improving student achievement and support the development, implementation, replication, and further evaluation of promising innovative practices. Individual LEAs (schools) and community partners can apply directly to federal government. Proposals will be released late 2009 or early 2010.
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21st Century Community Learning Center Grants
These are not part of education stimulus funds, but from No Child Left Behind Act. Applicants can be schools or non-profits working with schools that serve students attending high-poverty and low-performing schools. Programs provide a range of high-quality services to support student learning and development beyond the school day. RFPs to be released late November or early December 2009.
Click here to link to the fact sheet
Click here to link to FAQs
www.doe.in.gov/21stcclc/
School Improvement Grants (part of Title 1).
The Title I School Improvement Grants will provide states and districts the money they need to leverage change and turn around schools. Authorized under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act in 2002, the program did not receive funding until fiscal year 2007. The current $3.5 billion provides an unprecedented opportunity for states and districts to implement significant reforms to transform chronically low-performing schools. Click here to link to the fact sheet
ARRA Stimulus Funding Websites:
Federal:
www.ed.gov
www.recovery.gov
www.grants.gov
Indiana Government:
www.in.gov/gov/INvest.htm
Indiana Department of Education:
www.doe.in.gov/stimulus/
Other Helpful Afterschool Websites:
www.afterschoolalliance.org
www.summerlearning.org
www.afterschool.org
See other IAN webpages on afterschool funding, resources, standards, etc.
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