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for K-12
U.S. Department of Education
The Annenberg Foundation
The
Corning Inc. Foundation - Develops and administers projects
in support of educational, cultural, and community organizations.
Bell South Foundation - Grants to school districts and
nonprofits that offer educational services in select states.
Starbuck
Foundation Opportunity Grants - Supports local community
literacy organizations with low-income, at-risk, and/or
low literacy populations that encourage people to learn
in creative ways and involve Starbuck's employees and/or
venues in project activities.
The
Gateway Foundation - Promised to provide free technology
training to 75,000 educators in public and private schools.
Successful applicants will receive one year of free access
to an online database containing more than 400 technology
training courses.
The
Citigroup Foundation - Aims to strengthen education
in low-income neighborhoods. The "smarter schools"
initiative supports improvements in the governance of public
schools and higher standards for student performance. The
"smarter schools" initiative supports innovative
classroom technologies and successful school-to-work programs.
PowerUP
Grants - Seeks to serve underserved youth in the United
States through technology education and training.
The
Toshiba America Foundation - Awards grants for programs
and activities that improve teaching of science, mathematics,
and technology for middle and high school students.
Tech
Corps - Provides no-cost assistance in maintaining their
technology systems to schools connected to the internet.
Verizon
Foundation Grants - Focus on technology applications
and programs in one or more of the following areas: literacy,
the digital divide, economic and community development,
women's issues, overcoming disabilities, and math and science
education.
The
Sprint Foundation - Supports educational projects that
foster school reform through the use of new technologies
and through fresh approaches to the enhancement of teacher's
skills.
The
AOL Time Warner Foundation - Supports technology projects
in four major areas of priority. Equipping Kids for the
21st Century, Extending Internet Benefits to All, Engaging
Communities in the Arts, and Empowering Citizens and Civic
Participation.
Merrill
Lynch Foundation Grants - Funds alternative education
programs.
Hazen
Foundation - The goal of the foundation's education
grant-making is to foster effective schools for all children
and full partnership for parents and communities in school
reform efforts.
AMP
Inc - Provides extensive funding for projects that enhance
learning opportunities for students.
SMARTer
Kids Foundation - Provides grants and programs to assist
educators in purchasing technology for their classrooms.
The
National Education Association's Foundation - Offers
more than 300 small grants to fund classroom innovations
or professional development for improved practices in public
K-12 schools and higher-education institutions.
Federally
Funded Educational Programs
Educational
Technology State Grant - This consolidates: Technology
Literacy Challenge Fund and Technology Innovation Challenge
grants. Funds are distributed to states and in turn to local
districts based on 50% Title I formula and 50% competitively.
Computers
For Learning - The federal government has placed hundreds
of thousands of surplus computers in schools across the
country on a needs-first basis.
Adult
Ed-State Administered Basic Grant - Provides formula
grants to states for adult basic and secondary education
and English as a second language (ESL).
Character
Education - This program provides federal funding for
character education programs.
Community
Technology Centers - These grants fund technology learning
centers in low-income communities in public housing facilities,
community centers, libraries, and other educational facilities.
Comprehensive
School Reform - This program focuses on school-wide
efforts to improve education. Funds may be used to select
or design a school reform model that is research-based and
will help students reach state performance standards.
Early
Reading First - This program seeks to enhance reading
readiness for children in high-poverty areas and where a
high number of children are not reading at grade level.
It is aimed at 3-5 year olds to help them prepare to learn
to read.
Improvement
of education Achievement - Assists states in developing
assessments required under the No Child Left Behind legislation.
Funds may be used to pay the costs of developing additional
standards and assessments required by law. Funds may also
be used to administer the tests and other accountability
measures.
Innovative
Education State Grants - Title V - This is a formula
grant to assist state and local education efforts to improve
student achievement by implementing broad-based reform efforts
and other innovative educational improvement practices.
Funds can be used for curricular materials, professional
development, software, technology, and school repair.
Language
Acquisition State Grants (Formerly Bilingual Education)
- This program enables states, school districts, schools,
or other eligible entities to implement English-as-a-second-language
(ESL) programs or other appropriate instructional programs
on a school-wide or a system-wide basis. Money may be used
for services and activities, such as curriculum development,
purchase of instructional materials, education software,
tutoring and counseling, or to pay for personnel trained
to provide services to Limited English Proficient (LEP)
students.
Magnet
Schools Assistance in Desegregating Districts - These
funds are available to school districts that are under a
court-ordered or federally mandated desegregation plan.
Schools are designed to support an enhanced curriculum and
attract racially diverse student populations.
Mathematics
and Science Partnerships - This program encourages states,
institutions of higher learning, districts, and schools
to form a partnership to improve student performance in
math and science. Funds may be used for professional development,
summer workshops, and distance learning programs.
Parental
Assistance and Local Family Information Centers - Provides
training and information and enable parents to understand
the educational needs of their children. Grantees are nonprofit
groups serving rural and urban areas. Half of the funds
must be used for services in areas with high numbers of
low income students.
Perkins
Vocational and Applied Technology Act - This program
supports equal access by special populations at the secondary
and postsecondary level to vocational and technology education
activities, plus related professional development. The state
receives formula grants, school districts then receive sub-grants.
Reading
First - Provides assistance to state and districts in
setting up "scientific, research-based" reading
programs for children in grades K to 3. States may use 20%
to provide professional development and must distribute
80% to districts through a competitive-grant process, giving
priority to high-poverty areas. Funds may be used to purchase
software, instructional materials, and for staff development.
Rural Education - Funding is available for two programs.
First it provides flexible grants to small, rural districts
and allows them the added freedom in spending money under
a few major ESEA programs. If the district does not qualify,
it would be eligible for a second initiative, which provides
flexible grants to rural districts with at least 20% of
the students living in poverty.
Tech-Prep
Education - Program offers assistance to states to award
grants to a consortia of school districts and postsecondary
institutions to operate programs that facilitate technical
preparation in applied science; engineering technology;
industrial, mechanical, or practical trades; agriculture;
health; or business. Programs must include the last two
years of high school and two years of postsecondary education,
leading to an associate degree or a two-year certificate.
Title
I - This formula grant program provides districts with
extra resources to help improve instruction in high-poverty
schools and ensure that poor and minority children have
the same opportunities as their peers to meet the challenging
state academic standards. States must develop standards
in reading and math and assessments linked to those standards
for all students in grades 3 to 8. Funds may be used for
activities that scientifically based research suggests will
be most effective in helping all students meet these standards.
This
page lists the names of schools that have received the
21st Century Community Learning Center Grants.
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Preparing
Tomorrows Teachers to Use Technology - Ensures that
teachers are prepared to integrate technology into the curriculum
and to use new teaching and learning styles enabled by technology.
Challenge Grants
- Helps to secure long term support for and improvements
in their programs, activities, and resources related to
the humanities, including the use and application of technology.
Charter Schools - This program provides funding for
the design and implementation of public charter schools.
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