Education Announces nearly $25 million for Promise Neighborhoods Funding

By: Brenda Calderon, Ph.D., Office environment of Elementary and Secondary Schooling

“Promise Neighborhoods establish on the loaded resources, ingenuity, and creativeness of communities to deliver collectively faculties, nonprofits, and other businesses in a concerted energy to fulfill the requires of youngsters and youth”
— Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona.

What if college students had been supported from cradle to college and career by their educational facilities and other companions in their possess communities so that they can achieve their comprehensive probable?

The Guarantee Neighborhoods grant plan assists realize this vision by providing grant funding to tackle the many impacts that concentrated poverty has on a child’s education. These days, the U.S. Section of Schooling announced $18 million in implementation grants to expand partnerships to better meet the in depth wants of underserved communities. The Department plans to make up to a few grant awards, for up to $6,000,000 each, for this new round of funding. The Office will also be awarding an supplemental $6 million for extension grants.

Approved below the Elementary and Secondary Education and learning Act (ESEA), as amended, the Guarantee Neighborhoods Software is intended to appreciably enhance educational and developmental outcomes for children living in communities of concentrated poverty. This year’s levels of competition will involve applicants to converse to a single or far more of 3 priorities:

1: Programs Serving Non-Rural and Non-Tribal Communities
2: Systems Serving Rural Parts
3: Systems Serving Tribal Communities

In addition to the earlier mentioned-talked about priorities, the Department is also searching for apps that handle the following priorities:

Precedence 1: Strengthening Cross-Agency Coordination and Group Engagement to Advance Systemic Alter. Recognizing the effect of faculty and local community safety on finding out, the Division is interested in apps that are coordinating throughout several agencies and businesses to handle group violence avoidance and intervention.

Priority 2: Raising Postsecondary Schooling Obtain, Affordability, Completion, and Article-Enrollment Results. This precedence also consists of an invitational precedence to boost the number or share of learners who comprehensive the No cost Application for Federal Pupil Assist (FAFSA).

Priority 3: Evidence-Primarily based Pursuits to Assistance Tutorial Accomplishment. This priority emphasizes tasks that leverage actions, approaches, or interventions backed by higher-good quality evidence and that support tutorial practices involved with enhanced college student accomplishment, graduation rates, and postsecondary accomplishment.

Every single of these priorities replicate the Biden- Harris Administration’s determination to equity and aim of growing partnerships that go our communities ahead in equitable, sustainable techniques. Purposes will open on June 29th and will close 90 times after publication of the Recognize. To discover far more about the Guarantee Neighborhoods method, please pay a visit to Promise Neighborhoods (PN) – Office of Elementary and Secondary Training.