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Achieving the Goals: Goal 4 Teacher Professional Development - August 1996

School-to-Work Opportunities

* - designates programs that have a particular usefulness at the school or school district level

State Development and Implementation Grants

School -to-Work Opportunities State Development Grants are non-competitive grants intended to assist States in planning and developing statewide school-to-work systems. State Implementation Grants are competitive grants for States to establish comprehensive, statewide school-to-work systems that offer young Americans access to education and training programs designed to prepare them for a first job in a high-skill, high-wage career, and to increase their opportunities for further education. A State receiving a first-year improvement grant passes 70 percent of its School-to-Work Opportunities grant to local partnerships. In the second year, it will pass 80 percent of its grant to local partnerships and in the third year and beyond it will pass 90 percent to local partnerships. The 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico are eligible to apply for State grants.

School-to-Work Opportunities Team, (202) 401-6222.

Implementation Grants to Local Partnerships

These competitive grants are awarded directly to local partnerships and to local urban and rural partnerships in high poverty areas, to begin implementation of School-to-Work Opportunities Initiatives that will eventually be included in state- wide school-to-work systems. The purposes of local grants parallel those of the State Implementation Grants, but are to be achieved by local partnerships at the local level. To be eligible, a partnership must demonstrate that it has built a sound planning and development base for School-to-Work Opportunities programs and that it is ready to begin implementation. The program statute identifies the entities, including school districts, that must be included for a partnership to be eligible for a grant.

School-to-Work Opportunities Team, (202) 401-6222.

Development Grants to Territories and Development and Implementation Grants for Indian Youth

School-to-Work Opportunities Development Grants to Territories are non-competitive grants provided to partnerships in the Territories for the development of comprehensive school-to-work systems. Competitive Indian Program Grants are provided to eligible local partnerships to develop or implement School-to-Work Opportunities programs serving Indian youth and involving schools funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

School-to-Work Opportunities Team, (202) 401-6222.
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