The U.S. Department of Education has awarded $4.7 million to nine partnerships to help improve the quality of elementary and secondary education and bolster community-wide, comprehensive services for students, families and their communities. The Full-Service Community Schools (FSCS) program supports partnerships between schools, school districts, and community-based and nonprofit organizations.
Three of this year’s grantees will support Promise Zones, a federal interagency initiative that aligns a range of resources to build ladders of opportunity in economically distressed areas across the country. The 2014 FSCS program was among the first programs to include a focus on Promise Zones. Of the five current Promise Zones designations, the three supported by FSCS are the Youth Policy Institute (Los Angeles, California), Berea College (Berea, Kentucky), and the San Antonio Independent School District (San Antonio, Texas).
“Across the nation, we’ve seen schools come together to partner with key organizations to support comprehensive services for students and their families in some of our toughest communities,” said U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. “Great schools require the entire community to work together, and these grants will help leverage our resources to create a range of wraparound services that help all students grow in the classroom, and graduate ready for college and their careers.”
The FSCS program began in 2008, and funds comprehensive academic, social and health services to improve educational outcomes for children. To date, the program has awarded over $50 million to more than 20 communities across 13 states, serving approximately 150,000 students in more than 60 schools.
Today’s awards were selected from a pool of 147 applications, reflecting schools’ strong commitment to providing students a range of supports. These grantees represent nine states, 26 schools and 76 partnering organizations. The first year awards are for up to $500,000 with additional years subject to Congressional appropriations.
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May 22nd, 2015 at 11:59 am
Education Department Awards 9 Partnerships of School Districts and Nonprofits to Bolster Academic, Social and Health Services
During this past recession, it was obvious that more initiatives should have been initiated because of the high rate of unemployment. So many students graduating from College were unable to find employment; however, some were quite prepared because they chose recessional careers. What does that mean? It means that during a recession, they would always find employment.
Some educators took time out to encourage students to tap into their God-given talents and pursue a career that they really enjoy doing because getting up and going to place for at least eight hours it not necessary a good thing. You have to love what you are doing and love where you are going. We suggested to those that chose to be entrepreneurs choose to develop recessional businesses so that no matter what happens or wherever they are residing and doing business their business would thrive.
The U.S. Department of Education has awarded $4.7 million to nine partnerships to help improve the quality of elementary and secondary education and bolster community-wide, comprehensive services for students, families and their communities. The Full-Service Community Schools (FSCS) program supports partnerships between schools, school districts, and community-based and nonprofit organizations. This initiative would definitely be a great benefit to all students especially the deprived.
Educationally speaking, we commend and appreciate all the efforts of industries who partnership with others to help improve the quality of our students especially from elementary and secondary schools. This effort bolster community-wide, comprehensive services for students, families and their communities. We do appreciate that many of these industries
appreciate our educational efforts in promoting young people for their community and wider-society.
It is good to see schools who are strongly committed to providing students with a wide range of supports. Presently, the grantees represent nine states, 26 schools and 76 partnering organizations. My hope for this endeavor that all (50) states will become be encouraged to partnership with the US Department of Education.
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