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Meeting Date:
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4/13/2010 - 7:30 PM
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Category:
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Consent Agenda
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Type:
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Action
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Subject:
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9.15 (Item 15) Request authorization to submit a grant to the California Department of Education for the Quality Education Investment Act (QEIA) School Improvement Grant.
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LCAP (Local Control Accountability Plan) Goal:
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Enclosure
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File Attachment:
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Summary:
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Staff requests authorization to submit a grant to the California Department of Education for the Quality Education Investment Act (QEIA) School Improvement Grant (SIG) for the district’s five eligible schools (Cambridge, Meadow Homes, and Ygnacio Valley Elementary, and Oak Grove and Riverview Middle). Section 1003(g) of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), also known as School Improvement Grant (SIG), authorizes funds to help Local Education Agencies (LEAs) address the needs of schools in improvement, corrective action, and restructuring in order to improve student achievement. Through the passage of Assembly Bill (AB) 56, the Governor and the Legislature established that the state's priority for the use of these funds would be to provide funding to LEAs with schools participating in the Quality Education Investment Act (QEIA). The state has identified LEAs with QEIA schools that are in program improvement (PI) as most in need of funding and to have shown the greatest commitment to improvement based on their continued participation in QEIA.
These funds are intended to support research-based and proven effective, sustainable school improvement activities that increase the likelihood that students learn challenging academic content, achieve proficiency and that schools move out of PI.
MDUSD schools are eligible for $2,255,193. MDUSD QEIA schools will use these funds to pay for professional development, personnel, leadership and teacher coaching, assessment tools and data analysis, technology equipment and infrastructure and to offer summer school for students with the highest need at the five schools. All funds must be expended by September 30, 2010.
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Funding:
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Funding is provided by the California Department of Education.
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Fiscal Impact
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Grant will generate $2,255,193. There is no cost to the general fund.
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Recommendation:
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Approve submission of the grant and acceptance if awarded.
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Approvals:
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Recommended By:
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Signed By:
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Stephanie Roberts - Director of Development
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Signed By:
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Alan Young - Associate Superintendent
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Signed By:
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Steven Lawrence - Superintendent
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