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DoEd Launches $30M Promise Neighborhoods Grant Competition

The Education Dept. (DoEd) launches the 2016 Promise Neighborhoods (CFDA Number: 84.215N) grant competition, which will award $30 million to up to five organizations to help communities overcome the barriers of poverty, health inequity and low classroom performance. Deadline: Sept. 6. These ar...

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Education Dept. Releases $116M for School Improvement Grants

The Education Dept. releases more than $113 million in School Improvement Grants (SIG) to continue efforts to turn around persistently lowest-achieving schools in 16 states.  "When we launched this program at the beginning of the Obama Administration, we wanted to give states and school di...

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DoEd, HHS Release Joint Guidance on Foster Youth

The Departments of Education and the Health and Human Services issue guidance to states, school districts and child welfare agencies on the new provisions in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) for supporting children in foster care. The guidance aims to assist state and local partners in un...

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Efforts Aid Dual Language Learners in Early Learning Settings

The White House launches a new federal effort from the Departments of Health and Human Services and Education on better supporting the country's youngest dual language learners (DLLs) in early childhood programs. The initiative recognizes the cultural and linguistic assets of the population of c...

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Senate FY 2017 Spending Bill Includes Hike for HHS, Cut for DoEd

The Senate Appropriations Committee passed the FY 2017 Labor, Health and Human Services and Education (Labor-HHS-Ed) spending bill, which provides a slight funding boost for HHS and a small cut for the Education Dept. The bipartisan Labor-HHS-Ed bill would provide $161.9 billion in discretiona...

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Education Dept. Releases Guidance for Implementation of ESSA

The Education Dept. releases a proposed rule and guidance for implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) that will help schools put in place programs for accountability, data reporting, and consolidated plans. Public Comment Deadline: July 31. The department considered hundreds of...

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USDA Awards $3.8 Million to Prevent Childhood Obesity

Six universities have been awarded nearly $4 million in funding by the Agriculture Dept. (USDA) to help fight obesity and improve the health of the nation's children through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI). "Decades of research support the fact that children who are hun...

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DoEd Awards $100,000-plus Grant for Student Suicide Prevention

The Education Dept.'s Office of Safe and Healthy Students awards Crazy Horse School on the Pine Ridge Reservation in southwestern South Dakota a Project School Emergency Response to Violence (SERV) grant totaling $107,631. The grant will be used to assist with ongoing recovery efforts follow...

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Joint Guidance Released on Transgender Students’ Rights

  The Education and Justice departments release joint guidance to help provide educators the information they need to ensure that all students, including transgender students, can attend school in an environment free from discrimination, harassment and abuse. based on sex. Questions have a...

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DoEd Posts New Civil Rights Compliance Report

The Education Dept's (DoEd) Office for Civil Rights release the 2015 annual report highlighting efforts during the last year to protect students' civil rights and increase educational equity nationwide. The department received a record number of civil rights complaints last year. The report, De...

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