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Find similar grantsFY2025 Fund Codes 0220/0323: Support to Schools and Districts in the Strategic Transformation Region is sponsored by Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Provides funding for initiatives with evidence-based strategies to improve the state's lowest performing schools and districts.
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FY2025 Fund Codes 0220/0323: Support to Schools and Districts in the Strategic Transformation Region - Grants and Other Financial Assistance Programs Grants and Other Financial Assistance Programs Educational Collaboratives Department of Elementary and Secondary Education DESE Budget Inter-District School Choice School Finance Regulations Chapter 74 Nonresident Tuition FY2025: Support to Schools and Districts in the Strategic Transformation Region The purpose of this targeted grant program is to fund specific initiatives with evidence-based strategies to turn around the state's lowest performing schools and districts and increase their capacity to sustain a continuous cycle of improvement.
This grant is open to districts and schools in the Strategic Transformation Region. Priority will be given to districts and schools in chronically underperforming status and other schools within the Strategic Transformation Region that have been identified under the state's District and School Accountability System .
This grant is intended to support the strategies and priority areas identified in the district's or school's chronically underperforming or underperforming turnaround plan.
These turnaround plans describe evidence-based practices that are associated with rapid academic student achievement, including those that innovate on: school culture and climate, school autonomies and flexibilities, collaborative leadership, resource management, instructional rigor, cultural competency and dismantling systemic racism, social emotional learning, community partnerships, family engagement, and tiered systems of support.
The Department will list on this grant posting, on a rolling basis, any additional schools and/or districts and their designated grant allocations and application due dates as they are determined and as new needs emerge and funds become available. Some districts are eligible for funds under more than one fund code. The applicable fund codes are specified in the Workbook provided to each district.
In accordance with federal rules, all awarded Title I funds (Fund Code 0323) will be evenly dispersed to schools with a federal designation as comprehensive support and intervention (CSI) and targeted support and intervention (TSI) in SY24-25 for federal reporting purposes. Please see below in the Additional Information section for a list of schools in each eligible district.
The grant amount for each currently eligible recipient (Due: June 3, 2024) is listed below. Boston for Dever School $60,000 Lawrence $TBD — if needed New Bedford for Parker School $45,000 Springfield for SEZP $404,880 Fund Code 0323: Federal Title I Section 1003 School Improvement Reservation funds (CFDA 84.
010) Federal grant funds must adhere to: EDGAR General Fiscal Administration 34 CFR Part 76 Fund Code 0220: State Targeted Assistance Line Item: 7061-9408 Funding for the grant will come from federal and/or state funds as described above.
The total allocation per grant will be determined by financial needs articulated by: eligible schools/districts in meetings and other communication with the Department, spending plans drawn up by the Department projecting financial needs of known chronically underperforming schools and districts and other identified schools within the Strategic Transformation Region, and input from the Commissioner, the State Board of Education, and other Department staff in the Center for District Support.
This RFP is the governing document for these grant funds. Funding is contingent upon availability. All dollar amounts listed are estimated/approximate and are subject to change.
If more funding becomes available, it will be distributed under the same guidelines that appear in this RFP document. Funding will only be approved after programmatic and budgetary reviews by Department staff as noted above and upon review by the Office of the Governor. Fund use must be consistent with applicable state and/or federal requirements.
Districts are allowed to budget funds at both the district level and school level. Federal funding used for such grants will conform to Title I Section 1003 School Improvement requirements under ESSA (page 9–11) for Fund Code 0323 and to State Targeted Assistance funding requirements for Fund Code 0220.
State Fund Code 0220: Upon Approval* – 6/30/2025 These funds are PAC eligible FY25 Summer 7/1/2025 – 8/31/2025 Federal Fund Code 0323: Upon Approval* – 6/30/2025 *Grant start date cannot be prior to DESE receiving a substantially approvable Application Submission as directed in this RFP's Submission Instructions. Goods and Services cannot be procured prior to Grants receiving and approving an application submission.
Funds cannot exceed the project duration end date. Office of Strategic Transformation, Center for District Support Jennifer Wu , Targeted Assistance Manager, Office of Strategic Transformation Monday, June 3, 2024 by 5:00 PM Proposals must be received at the Department by 5:00 p. m.
Eastern on the date due. The Department will list on this grant posting, on a rolling basis, any additional schools and/or districts and their designated grant allocations and application due dates as they are determined and as new needs emerge and funds become available.
ESSA encourages, and in select cases requires, states and districts to implement "evidence-based" practices, activities, strategies, and interventions with demonstrated evidence of effectiveness. Evidence-based practices refer to interventions for which there is evidence of significant positive impact that can be found in published research papers, literature reviews, or DESE research briefs.
Alternately, evidence-based practices can be those local practices that a district or state has previously instituted, measured, and found to be effective. Please visit the How Do We Know initiative for more information on evidence-based practices. Additional guidance from the U.S. Department of Education regarding evidence can be found at Non-Regulatory Guidance: Using Evidence to Strengthen Education Investments .
More information can be found on DESE's How Do We Know Initiative and ESSA Evidence Quick Reference Guide . These grants must demonstrate connections to DESE's District Standards and Indicators as well as the Massachusetts research-based Turnaround Practices .
When describing connections to the standards and indicators, the applicant may wish to refer to the Massachusetts Tiered System of Support (MTSS) , the Massachusetts Family, School, and Community Partnership Fundamentals , the Massachusetts Standards for Professional Development , and/or the Behavioral Health and Public Schools Framework .
Since these initiatives support the school's or district's existing turnaround process, the school/district is not asked to set additional outcome measures for this work. The district's measures under the state's accountability and assistance system and Measurable Annual Goals (MAGs) and turnaround plan annual benchmarks, if applicable, will serve as outcome measures for these initiatives as well.
Applicants may only legally claim expenses to the grant starting from the date of final ESE approval. The start date for the grant is the date on which the district submits substantially approvable budget and information for the grant. List of Schools in Eligible Districts Applying schools/districts must describe the rationale for their budget items and their intended outcomes in their Workbooks.
To support effective planning and the strategic use of grant funds, DESE requires that eligible schools and districts explain how the strategic initiatives funded through this grant program connect to the implementation of the district's and/or school's turnaround plan. These funds should be aligned with other district funds focused on school turnaround efforts.
The FY25 FC0220 FC0323 Support to Schools and Districts in the Strategic Transformation Region Grant will be submitted in our new GEM$ system . GEM$ is a cloud-based fiscal and program management grant system that will eventually phase out the use of EdGrants.
Grants for Education Management System (GEM$) Please Note: Grant Submission at the LEA level requires roles to be established for Grant writer for the specific fund code, LEA fiscal for financial review/approval, and Superintendent/Chief Executive sign off.
All these roles should be established prior to the grant due date and all appropriate forms should be either uploaded to GEM$, maintained at the LEA level or sent in to the DESE RFP contact as described on the individual forms. The user guidance documents and forms are found on the GEM$ homepage under DESE Resources. These forms can be accessed without logging in to the system.
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Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: Districts and schools in the Strategic Transformation Region of Massachusetts. Applicants should confirm final requirements in the official notice before submission.
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Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education & Human Resources (IUSE: EHR) Program is sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF). This program promotes novel, creative, and transformative approaches to generating and using new knowledge about STEM teaching and learning to improve STEM education for undergraduate students. It supports projects that bring recent advances in STEM knowledge into undergraduate education, adapt, improve, and incorporate evidence-based practices, and lay the groundwork for institutional improvement in STEM education. Professional development for instructors to ensure adoption of new and effective pedagogical techniques is a potential topic of interest.
The National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program (NLG-L) supports projects that address critical needs of the library and archives fields and have the potential to advance practice and strengthen library and archival services for the American public. Successful proposals will generate results such as new models, tools, research findings, services, practices, and/or alliances that can be widely used, adapted, scaled, or replicated to extend and leverage the benefits of federal investment. Applications to IMLS should both advance knowledge and understanding and ensure that the federal investment made generates benefits to society. Specifically, the goals for this program are to generate projects of far-reaching impact that: • Build the workforce and institutional capacity for managing the national information infrastructure and serving the information and education needs of the public. • Build the capacity of libraries and archives to lead and contribute to efforts that improve community well-being and strengthen civic engagement. • Improve the ability of libraries and archives to provide broad access to and use of information and collections with emphasis on collaboration to avoid duplication and maximize reach. • Strengthen the ability of libraries to provide services to affected communities in the event of an emergency or disaster. • Strengthen the ability of libraries, archives, and museums to work collaboratively for the benefit of the communities they serve. Throughout its work, IMLS places importance on diversity, equity, and inclusion. This may be reflected in an IMLS-funded project in a wide range of ways, including efforts to serve individuals of diverse geographic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds; individuals with disabilities; individuals with limited functional literacy or information skills; individuals having difficulty using a library or museum; and underserved urban and rural communities, including children from families with incomes below the poverty line. Application Process: The application process for the NLG-L program has two phases; applicants must begin by applying for Phase I. For Phase I, all applicants must submit Preliminary Proposals by the September 20th deadline listed for this Notice of Funding Opportunity. For Phase II, only selected applicants will be invited to submit Full Proposals, and only those Invited Full Proposals will be considered for funding. Invited Full Proposals will be due March 20, 2024. Funding Opportunity Number: NLG-LIBRARIES-FY24. Assistance Listing: 45.312. Funding Instrument: G. Category: AR,HU. Award Amount: $50K – $1M per award.
The California Department of Education (CDE) Early Education Division is making approximately .7 million available to expand California State Preschool Program (CSPP) services statewide, appropriated under the 2021 Budget Act. Eligible applicants are local educational agencies (LEAs), including school districts, county offices of education, community college districts, and direct-funded charter schools—both current CSPP contractors and new applicants. Funding supports full-day/full-year or part-day/part-year preschool services for income-eligible children beginning in FY 2024–25. Awards are allocated by county based on Local Planning Council priority areas and application scores, with redistribution provisions if county allocations are underutilized.