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Grants and Other Financial Assistance Programs: FY2016
McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Grant Fund Code: 310A
Purpose: | The purpose of these federal funds is to provide funding for programs that ensure homeless students enroll in school, attend school, and have the opportunity to succeed in school. |
Priorities: |
McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act funds support the education of homeless students through high quality programming in any or all of the following priorities:
programming designed to raise awareness throughout the district and community;
tutoring, supplemental instruction, and other educational services that help homeless students close achievement gaps;
before- and after-school programs, mentoring, summer programs for homeless children and youth, and services/assistance to attract, engage, and retain homeless students in these programs;
collaborating with external agencies to provide homeless students and families with medical, dental, mental health, and other community and state services;
providing violence prevention counseling, referrals to counseling and/or address the needs of homeless students who are domestic violence survivors;
providing supplies to non-school facilities and adapting these facilities to enable them to provide services; and
providing extraordinary or emergency services to eligible students as necessary to enroll and retain them in school.
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Eligibility: |
LEAs with fifty (50) or more enrolled homeless students.
Two or more LEAs with a combined total of fifty (50) or more enrolled homeless students may apply as a consortium.
Applicant LEAs must include collaboration with community-based organizations through a local Homeless Education Service Coordination Committee or other established local committee or council addressing homelessness.
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Funding: |
Fund Code: 310-A grants will be awarded annually; subject to budget appropriation.
Approximately $720,000 is available.
Using 2013/14 homeless student enrollment data LEAs/consortia should submit applications based on the following funding levels:
- $60,000: 2,000 or more enrolled homeless students
- $55,000: 1,000 or more enrolled homeless students
- $50,000: 700 or more enrolled homeless students
- $40,000: 400 or more enrolled homeless students
- $30,000: 200 or more enrolled homeless students
- $20,000: 100 or more enrolled homeless students
- $10,000: 50 or more enrolled homeless students
ESE reserves the right to alter the award to each funded LEA.
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Fund Use: |
Programs can either expand or improve services provided through a school's general academic program but cannot replace that program (supplement not supplant). To the extent practicable, activities and services are to integrate homeless and non-homeless students.
Districts may provide services through programs on school grounds, at other facilities, or may use funds to enter into contracts with other agencies to provide services for homeless children and youth. McKinney-Vento funds may provide the same services to housed students to ensure that program activities integrate homeless and non-homeless students.
Grant funds cannot be used to pay for the district's Homeless Education Liaison, a position required in all school districts, or for clerical staff support.
Transportation costs may not exceed 10% of the grant and may not be used for transportation costs that are required by the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act.
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Project Duration: | 9/1/2015 - 8/31/2016 |
Program Unit: | Office for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth |
Contacts: |
Sarah Slautterback, State Coordinator (781) 338-6330
Elizabeth Harris (781) 338-6310
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Date Due: | Friday, May 29, 2015
Competitive proposals must be received at the Department by 5:00 p.m. on the date due.
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Required Forms: |
Part I - General - Program Unit Signature Page - (Standard Contract Form and Application for Program Grants)
Part II - Budget Detail Pages (Include both pages.)
Part III - Required Program Information
McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Activity Form
McKinney-Vento Budget Narrative
McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Grant Assurances
Memorandum of Understanding for the Service Coordination Committee - (to be developed by applicants)
Schedule A for LEAs applying as a consortium
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Additional Information: |
Successful grantees will:
convene a local Homeless Education Services Coordination Committee or actively participate in an established local committee/council designed to assess the needs and assist in the provision of services to the homeless student population in the district;
provide an end-of-year progress report; and
attend network meetings twice a year.
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Submission Instructions: |
- Email one (1) complete set of all required documents to eharris@doe.mass.edu no later than 5:00 p.m. on Friday, May 29, 2015 (Note: Signatures are not required on the emailed version).
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- Submit one (1) copy each of Part I-General-Program Unit Signature Page and the McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Grant Assurances both with an original signature of the Superintendent/Executive Director (or others as indicated) where required and postmarked by Friday May 29, 2015.
Mail to:
Elizabeth Harris
Office for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth
Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
75 Pleasant Street
Malden, MA 02148-4906
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Last Updated: March 9, 2015
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