Thursday, December 18, 2008

Road Map for School-Based Health Care

The National Assembly on School-Based Health Care (NASBHC) Road Map is a tool to help you on your journey from the early stages of considering a SBHC through the first year or two of operations. The Road Map is like having the trunk of your car filled with resources, tools, policies and procedures, samples, and links that will make your trip a little easier.
Title:

The Roadmap to Success
Date:
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Time:
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM ET

To register please send and email to Tiffany Clarke at tclarke@nasbhc.org with the webinar title in the subject line or call (202) 638-5872.

2009 Federal Priorities

The Federal Register announced the continued use--in fiscal year (FY) 2009--of priorities that the Department of Education (Department) previously established for use in any discretionary grant program competition in FY 2007 and FY 2008.


Final Priorities
Priority 1--Mathematics.
Projects that support activities to enable students to achieve proficiency or advanced proficiency in mathematics.

Priority 2--Science.
Projects that support activities to enable students to achieve proficiency or advanced proficiency in science.

Priority 3--Critical-Need Languages.
Projects that support activities to enable students to achieve proficiency or advanced proficiency in one or more of the following less commonly taught languages: Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Russian, and languages in the Indic, Iranian, and Turkic language families.

Priority 4--Secondary Schools.
Projects that support activities and interventions aimed at improving the academic achievement of secondary school students who are at greatest risk of not meeting challenging State academic standards and not completing high school.

Priority 5--Professional Development for Secondary School Teachers.
Projects that support high-quality professional development for secondary school teachers to help these teachers improve student academic achievement.

Priority 6--School Districts with Schools in Need of Improvement,
Corrective Action, or Restructuring.
Projects that help school districts implement academic and structural interventions in schools that have been identified for improvement, corrective action, or restructuring under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.

Priority 7--Student Achievement Data.
Projects that collect pre-and post-intervention test data to assess the effect of the projects on the academic achievement of student participants relative to appropriate comparison or control groups.

Priority 8--State Data Systems.
Projects that help educators use information from State data systems to improve student achievement or other appropriate outcomes.

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Modest Needs Grants for Self Sufficiency

1. Self-Sufficiency Grants
Modest Needs makes Self-Sufficiency Grants by remitting payment to a creditor for an expense on behalf of an otherwise self-sufficient individual or family for a relatively small, emergency expense which the individual or family could not have anticipated or prepared for.


2. Back-to-Work Grants
Modest Needs makes Back-to-Work Grants by remitting payment for a small fee or expense that will allow a temporarily unemployed individual to return to productive, full-time employment.

3. Independent Living Grants
Modest Needs makes Independent Living Grants by remitting payment to a creditor for an expense on behalf of persons who are permanently unable to work but who nevertheless are living independently on the limited income to which they are entitled - their retirement income, or their permanent disability income, for example.

4. Non-Profit Grants
Modest Needs makes Non-Profit Grants by remitting payment to a creditor for an expense incurred by a small non-profit organization that will demonstrably strengthen that organization's ability to serve its clients and community.

5. The 'Random Acts of Kindness' Grant
The 'Random Acts of Kindness' grant program, which Modest Needs administers on behalf of a private foundation, is similar to Modest Needs' own Self-Sufficiency Grant in that the 'Random Acts of Kindness Grant' is designed to prevent an otherwise self-sufficient individual or family from entering the cycle of poverty due to an unexpected emergency expense.