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 Arts Education and School Improvement Resources for Local and State Leaders -- April 1997 (Updated March 1999)

TITLE II: DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT STATE GRANTS

(202) 260-2465 or State Department of Education, State Agency for Higher Education or Local School District

Title II improves the teaching and learning of all students through professional development activities in the core academic subjects to help ensure that teachers, administrators and other staff have access to sustained and intensive high-quality professional development that is aligned to challenging state content standards and challenging state student performance standards. This program expands the Eisenhower Science and Math programs to include other core academic subjects when total appropriation exceeds $250 million. Professional development activities in science and math retain the local share of the first $250 million appropriated.

Program Office Contact: Daniel Bonner (202) 260-2517 or e-mail Daniel.Bonner@ed.gov

Legislation: The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, Title II, Part B, as amended, 20 U.S.C. 6641-6651

Type of Assistance: Formula grants to state education agencies and state agencies for higher education (within states, 16 percent allotted for competitive grants to institutions of higher education and qualified nonprofit organizations; and 84 percent allotted to the state education agency). All local education agencies (LEA) apply to the state and receive funding based on formula. The LEAs receive 90 percent of the state education agency's allocation.

Who May Apply: State education agencies in conjunction with state agencies for higher education. Within states, local education agencies receive a formula grant, and institutions of higher education or nonprofit organizations may compete for grants through the state agency for higher education.

FY 99 Appropriation: $335 million

The Wyoming State Arts Council successfully applied for some of the state level Eisenhower professional development funding. The grant will support a survey of arts education teachers to determine who is already using technology in the teaching of the arts and in what ways. The Council will then sponsor a conference specific to the use of technology in the teaching of the arts. The Council will help connect technologically inexperienced arts teachers with those more developed in their use of technology, and it will also sponsor summer workshops for all levels of practitioners. The Eisenhower grant helped the Council successfully apply for an Education and Access grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to expand their professional development effort.


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