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Certification Up-Date Meetings Scheduled Inkster Schools Financial Manager Named $11.5 Million Awarded in First Round of Reading First Funding School Repairs and Infrastructure Improvements - $32.5 Million IDEA Grants: IDEA, Category 1 - Urgent School Repairs IDEA, Part B - State Discretionary Projects IDEA, Part C - State Competitive Projects Title I Grants: Title I - Accountability/School Improvement Title I - School-Wide Program Planning Title I, Part C - Education of Migratory Children Title I - Part D - Neglected or Delinquent Children Title II & State Grants: Title II, Part A - Teacher and Principal Training and Recruiting Title II, Part A - Improving Basic Programs Title II, Part D - Enhancing Education Through Technology Michigan School Readiness Program may be found on the Legislative Hotline page of this website.  Return to Top Certification Up-Date Meetings Scheduled The Office of Professional Preparation Services will conduct statewide regional information meetings to provide an update on issues related to professional preparation and certification. The 2002 tentative schedule for the meetings is as follows:
Maps and directions are available for all sites on their website www.michigan.gov/mde. You and/or other interested staff are invited to attend any session that is convenient. In order to help plan for refreshments, they ask that you e-mail your attendance to Denise Dickenson at DickensonD@michigan.gov by September 9, 2002. There is no fee for attendance. Please note, registration is from 8:30 to 9:00 a.m.; the meeting will start at 9:00 a.m. Each staff presentation will be followed by a question and answer period. Return to Top Inkster Schools Financial Manager Named On August 8, Governor Engler invoked the state's Local Government Fiscal Responsibility Act and appointed W. Howard Morris, former chief financial officer for the Detroit Public Schools, as the financial manager for the fiscally troubled Inkster Public Schools. After leaving the Detroit schools, Mr. Morris became managing partner of Prairie & Tireman. He is also a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers Board of Arbitrators, a former member of the board of directors of the Michigan Public School Employees Retirement System, the former secretary-treasurer of the Michigan State Board of Accountancy and a former board member of the Michigan Education Trust. At the end his one-year term, the state will evaluate the district for progress and determine what action to take next. Return to Top $11.5 Million Awarded in First Round of Reading First Funding Fifty school buildings in ten Michigan school districts have been awarded $11.5 million as part of the federally-funded Reading First Program, under the 'No Child Left Behind Act.' The state of Michigan is among the first states to receive federal grants through the Reading First Program designed to ensure that all children in the United States learn to read well by the end of third grade. First round grant recipients for Reading First monies among MFT&SRP districts include: Dearborn City School District - $595,500 Detroit City Public School District - $6,494,400 The Reading First programs will fund various local district coordinated activities, including research-based, directed instruction approaches to reading, systemic attacks on urban illiteracy, and literacy coaches. For this first round of Reading First grant competitions, Michigan Department of Education received proposals from 44 of the 83 eligible local education agencies. A total of $22.7 million is available for Reading First grant competitions in Michigan. The remainder of the funds will be awarded to school districts in the second round of grant applications available in January 2003. Over six years, Michigan will receive $186.5 million. The U.S. Congress appropriated $900 million for Reading First in fiscal year 2002. Funds are allocated to states using a formula based on the proportion of children aged five to 17 who reside within the state and are from families with incomes below the poverty line. Return to Top $32.5 Million for School Repairs and Infrastructure Improvements More than $32.5 million to assist school districts as they improve school infrastructure were issued August 8 to 107 Michigan school districts, according to the Michigan Department of Education. The 2001-02 School Renovation, IDEA, and Technology Grant Program is a competitive, one-time, federally-funded grant program designed to help local school districts make school repairs and renovations, and meet special education and renovation-related technology expenses. Although the Department of Education issued every dollar allocated by the federal government for the program, Michigan school districts requested more than $68.2 million for this category. Approximately 47 percent of the funding, or $15.31 million, was allocated to high poverty local and intermediate school districts, and public school academies. A list below are the MFT&SRP represented schools that were funded : Return to Top
2001 - 2002 School Renovation, IDEA, and Technology Grant Program
Category 1 - Urgent School Repairs
2002 - 2003 State Discretionary Projects
IDEA, Part B
The purpose of this federally-funded grant is to provide information and support to the parents and families of students with disabilities; to provide statewide medication and transition services, and to provide direct services to students and their providers regarding assistive technology, large print, braille, and opportunities to enhance academic skills through the arts.
This project will provide coordination of several parent support services. This coordination is intended to maximize the resources available through federal funding as well as improve accountability for providing quality services to parents of students with disabilities. This system can support improved parent involvement in education, strengthen partnerships between families and schools, and enhance parents' knowledge and effectiveness in exercising their rights and responsibilities and identified under the IDEA 97. This project was competitively bid for the 1998- 1999 fiscal year. This is the fifth year of the five-year grant.
2002 - 2003 State Competitive Projects
IDEA, Part C The purpose of this federally-funded grant is to provide assistance to the Office of Special Education and Early Intervention Services in conducting the regulatory activities required under IDEA; providing information, personnel development and technical assistance; evaluation activities; public awareness and referral materials; and developing parent leadership.
This grant will maintain the on-going evaluation of family satisfaction and implementation of Early on Michigan. The findings of the evaluation project will be used by the Michigan Department of Education and the State Interagency Coordinating Council as part of a quality improvement process to better support families and young children with disabilities. A design for additional methods for gaining public input, i.e. focus groups, interviews and/or site visits, was developed and implemented for FY 2001 - 2002. Evaluation findings will be provide to the Department of Education and State Interagency Coordinating Council as needed. This project was competitively bid for FY 2000 - 2001. This is the third year of a three-year grant. Return to Top
2002 - 2003 Title I
Accountability/School Improvement The purpose of this federally-funded grant is to support intensive school improvement activities in low-performing Title I schools as defined by state criteria.
2002 - 2003 Title I
School-Wide Program Planning The purpose of this federally-funded grant is to provide support, as required by the Title I legislation, to schools that engage in a year of school-wide planning with external technical assistance in order to operate Title I school-wide program.
2002 - 2003 Title I, Part C
Education of Migratory Children The purpose of this federally-funded grant is to support high-qualified comprehensive educational programs for migratory children designed to reduce the educational disruptions and other problems resulting from repeated moves.
2002 - 2003 Title I, Part D
Prevention and Intervention for Neglected or Delinquent Children The purpose of the federally-funded grant is to provide supplementary services to children and youth in local institutions for neglected or delinquent children to improve their academic achievement, facilitate their transition into a regular school setting, and help prepare them for further education.
Return to Top Listed below are other federal and state funded grants received by MFT&SRP Locals. See attached chart for the amount of funding your district will receive. Column I 2002 - 2003 Title II, Part A Teacher and Principal Training and Recruiting The purpose of this federally-funded grant program is to increase student academic achievement through strategies such as improving teacher and principal quality and increasing the number of highly qualified teachers in the classroom and highly qualified principals and assistant principals in schools; and hold local educational agencies and schools accountable for improvements in student academic achievement. Column II 2002 - 2003 Title II, Part A Improving Basic Programs The purpose of this federally funded grant is to help disadvantaged children meet high academic standards through participation in a school-wide program designed to strengthen the entire educational program, or a targeted assistance program designed to provide additional instruction to low-achieving students. Column III 2002 - 2003 Title II, Part D Enhancing Education Through Technology The purpose of this federally-funded grant program is to provide assistance for effective use of technology, encourage the establishment or expansion of access to technology, an assistance in the improvement of technology infrastructure in elementary and secondary schools. It can be used to promote initiatives for educators to integrate technology into curriculum and to provide professional development and training for teachers, principals, and administrators. Column IV 2002 - 2003 Michigan School Readiness Program (Preschool Program for Four Year Olds At Risk of School Failure) The purpose of this state-funded grant is to improve the readiness and subsequent achievement of children 'at risk' of becoming educationally disadvantaged and who may have extraordinary need of special assistance. The 1999 State Board priorities included fostering investment in early childhood education and in linking schools to families and communities. The programs funded with these grants support these priorities. Return to Top
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