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Parental Involvement Programs

At-Risk Students

Dropout Prevention Demonstration Assistance

This program provides financial assistance to local education agencies, education partnerships and community-based organizations to establish and demonstrate effective dropout prevention and reentry programs. Funds may be used for activities directly related to reducing the number of children that do not complete their elementary and secondary education. Not more than five percent of any grant may be used for administrative funds to supplant funds that would, in the absence of Federal funds, be made available from non-federal sources for the activities that assistance is being sought.

Local education agencies, community-based organizations, and education partnerships may apply for funds to provide services to student dropouts, students at-risk of dropping out, and students reentering school.

Valerie T. Grant
Equity and Educational Excellence Division
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
600 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202-6346
(202) 260-2612

National Early Intervention Scholarship and Partnership

This partnership program provides grants to states for: (1) statewide early intervention programs to aid low-income at risk students in preschool, elementary, middle and secondary schools; and (2) postsecondary educational financial assistance to eligible low-income students to attend institutions of higher education. The program awards grants to states for early intervention programs and postsecondary education scholarships for at- risk and priority students.

Only states and U.S. territories are eligible to apply. A single agency within the state government must be designated as being responsible for administering the program.

Fred H. Sellers
Policy Development Division
Policy, Training, and Analysis Service
Student Financial Assistance Programs
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education
Department of Education
Washington, DC 20202-5447
(202) 708-4607

School, College, and University Partnerships

This program encourages partnerships between institutions of higher education and secondary schools to support programs that improve the high school retention and graduation rates of low-income and disadvantaged secondary school students, improve their academic skills, and prepare them for programs of postsecondary education, or gainful employment following graduation from school.

Funds may be used to support programs that use college students to tutor secondary school students for the following purposes:

• improving their basic academic skills;

• increasing the understanding of specific subjects by secondary school students;

• involving secondary school students in community service and learning projects;

• improving the opportunity for secondary school students to continue a program of education after graduation; and

• increasing their employment prospects.

Applicants for funding may be an institution of higher education, a state higher education agency, or a consortium of these, that must enter into a written partnership with a local education agency. In addition, the partnership may include businesses, labor organizations, professional associations, community-based organizations, public television stations or other telecommunications entities, or other public or private agencies or associations. A grantee must request federal funding of at least $250,000 per year.

This program will serve predominantly low-income communities; educationally disadvantaged students; students with disabilities; potential dropouts; pregnant adolescents and teen parents; children of migratory agricultural workers or migratory fishermen; and students whose native language is other than English.

Frances Bergeron
Division of Student Services
Office of Postsecondary Education
U.S. Department of Education
Suite 600D, Portals Building
1250 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202-5249
(202) 708-4804

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