Full- Service Community Schools Program
Solicitation Title: Full- Service Community Schools Program
Funding Amount: $275,000–$500,000 for each 12-month budget period; $1,375,000–$2,500,000 for the entire project period.
Sponsor Deadline: Monday, March 18, 2019
Solicitation Link: https://innovation.ed.gov/what-we-do/parental-options/full-service-community-schools-program-fscs/
Solicitation Number: CFDA 84.215J
Overview
<p>The Full-Service Community Schools program is authorized by sections 4621–4623 and 4625 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESEA). This program provides support for the planning, implementation, and operation of full-service community schools that improve the coordination, integration, accessibility, and effectiveness of services for children and families, particularly for children attending high-poverty schools, including high-poverty rural schools.</p> <p>Types of Projects: Full-Service Community Schools provide comprehensive academic, social, and health services for students, students’ family members, and community members that will result in improved educational outcomes for children. These services may include: high-quality early learning programs and service; remedial education, aligned with academic supports and other enrichment activities, providing students with a comprehensive academic program; family engagement, including parental involvement, parent leadership, family literacy, and parent education programs; mentoring and other youth development programs; community service and service learning opportunities; programs that provide assistance to students who have been chronically absent, truant, suspended, or expelled; job training and career counseling services; nutrition services and physical activities; primary health and dental care; activities that improve access to and use of social service programs and programs that promote family financial stability; mental health services; and adult education, including instruction of adults in English as a second language.</p>
Solicitation Limitations: <p>To be eligible for an award, a portion of the services provided by the applicant must be supported through non-Federal contributions, either in cash or in-kind donations. The applicant must propose the amount of cash or in-kind resources to be contributed for each year of the grant.</p> Other Information:<p>This notice contains one absolute priority and four competitive preference priorities.<br>This priority is: Eligible entities that will serve two or more full-service community schools eligible for a schoolwide program of the ESEA as part of a community- or district-wide strategy.</p> <p>Competitive Preference Priorities: For FY 2019, and any subsequent year in which we make awards from the list of unfunded applications from this competition, these priorities are competitive preference priorities. We award an additional two points to an application that meets Competitive Preference Priority 1, and we award an additional point to an application that meets Competitive Preference Priority 2. We award an additional point to an application that meets Competitive Preference Priority 3, and an additional five points to an application that meets Competitive Preference Priority 4. An applicant may receive a maximum of nine competitive preference priority points. Applicants may apply under any, all, or none of the competitive preference priorities.</p> <p>• Competitive Preference Priority 1— Rural Districts-Small and Rural or Rural and Low-Income. (0 or 2 points).<br>• Competitive Preference Priority 2— Broadly Representative Consortiums. (0 or 1 point).<br>• Competitive Preference Priority 3— History of Effectiveness. (0 or 1 point).<br>• Competitive Preference Priority 4— Evidence-Based Activities, Strategies, or Interventions. (0 or 5 points).</p>Last Updated:
RODA ID: 564