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for K-12
U.S. Department of Education
The Annenberg Foundation
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.
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.
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.
SMARTer
Kids Foundation - Provides grants and programs to assist
educators in purchasing technology for their classrooms.
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.
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.
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.
This
page lists the names of schools that have received the
21st Century Community Learning Center Grants.
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News
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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Foundation Center
Workforce
Investment Act
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Investment Act (alternate)
Job Corps
Public
Libraries
Correctional
Education Association
National
Center on Adult Literacy
National Institute
for Literacy
Department
of Labor
University
Continuing Education Association
National Head
Start Association
Special
Education Facilities
US Department
of Justice
Public
Welfare Foundation
Health and
Human Services
American Library
Association
Unions
Family
Literacy
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Bush Foundation Grants
Family
Literacy Foundation
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Way
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Foundation
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