2011-2012 Texas 21st Century Community Learning Centers, Cycle 7, Year 1

Birdville ISD has been preliminarily selected by the Texas Education Agency to receive Texas 21st Century Community Learning Centers, Cycle 7 (ASPIRE2) grant.

The purpose of this program is to establish or expand activities in community learning centers that:

Provide opportunities for academic enrichment, including providing tutorial services to help students, particularly students who attend low-performing schools, to meet State and local student academic achievement standards in core academic subjects, such as reading and mathematics
Offer students a broad array of additional services, programs, and activities, such as youth development activities, drug and violence prevention programs, counseling programs, art, music, and recreation programs, technology education programs, and character education programs, that are designed to reinforce and complement the regular academic program of participating students
Offer families of students served by community learning centers opportunities for literacy and related educational development

Grant Period:

This is a Five Year Grant

First Year: August 1, 2011 – July 31, 2012

Birdville ISD ($12,000.000 over a five year period, $2,400,000 annually)

Participating Campuses are:

Richland Elementary

Watauga Elementary

Academy at Carrie F. Thomas

Jack C. Binion Elementary

Mullendore Elementary

Richland Middle School

Foster Village Elementary

Holiday Heights Elementary

Spicer Elementary

Hardeman Elementary

Congratulations to all!

Grant Awards in the District Since 2003
Fiscal Year 2003-2004
Award	Funding Agency	Project Summary
$2,547,258	Texas Education Agency- Technology Applications Readiness Grants for Empowering Texas. (TARGET)	Provide ongoing, sustained professional development for teachers, principals, administrators and school library personnel to further the use of technology in the classroom.
$4,374,985	Texas Education Agency- 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21stCCLC-SCORES)	Establish and expand community learning centers that provide students with academic enhancement activities, along with activities designed to complement the students’ regular academic programs. Community learning centers also offer families of these students’ literacy and related educational development opportunities and resources.
Fiscal Year 2004-2005
$ 350,000	Texas Education Agency- Texas High School Completion Success Initiative	Provide academic support to at-risk students who are deficient in credits and appear to be in danger of not graduating within four years after entering 9th grade and /or 11th grade students who have not passed exit-level TAKS.
$800,000	Texas Education Agency-Even Start Family Literacy	Improve the academic achievement of parents and their young children, especially in the area of reading. Even Start provides educational services for the family, parents and children alike. For adults and children with limited English proficiency, Even Start helps them make progress toward acquisition of the English language and attainment of a high level of literacy.
$1,238,358	United States Department of Education- Smaller Learning Communities	Promote academic achievement through the implementation of small, safe, and successful learning environments in large public high schools to help ensure that all students graduate with knowledge necessary to make successful transitions to college and careers.
$508,866	United States Department of Education- Mentoring	Provide mentoring services by matching 140 elementary and middle school students at North Oaks and Spicer with suitable mentors.
$50,000	Texas Education Agency-Investment capital Fund Grant (ICF)	Provide training to school staff, parents, and community leaders to understand academic standards, develop and implement effective strategies to improve student performance, and provide after school student enrichment activities at The Academy at C. F. Thomas
Fiscal Year 2005-2006
$50,000	Texas Education Agency-Investment capital Fund Grant (ICF)	Provide training to school staff, parents, and community leaders to understand academic standards, develop and implement effective strategies to improve student performance, and provide after school student enrichment activities at Jack C. Binion Elementary
$135,000	Texas Education Agency-Math Professional Development Partnership	Provide intensive math instruction program to improve student achievement in math and bring struggling students to at least on-grade-level performance at Grades 4 through 6.

Fiscal Year 2006-2007
$200,000	Texas Education Agency-Investment capital Fund Grant (ICF)	Provide training to school staff, parents, and community leaders to understand academic standards, develop and implement effective strategies to improve student performance, and provide after school student enrichment activities at Hardeman, Spicer and Watauga and West Birdville
$332,536	Texas Education Agency- High Schools That Work (HSTW)	Support underperforming high schools in the use of the HSTW school improvement design as a framework to improve academic and career/technology instruction and overall student achievement.

Fiscal Year 2007-2008
$250,000	Texas Education Agency-Investment capital Fund Grant (ICF)	Provide training to school staff, parents, and community leaders to understand academic standards, develop and implement effective strategies to improve student performance, and provide after school student enrichment activities at Smithfield, Birdville, ACFT, South Birdville Elementary
$45,000	Texas Education Agency- 9th Grade Summer Transition	Develop a pilot program designed to provide intensive summer academic instruction to high school students in grades 9-12.
$50,000	Texas Education Agency-Texas Educator Excellence Grant (TEEG) Cycle 1	Provide a system of financial incentives to award educators who demonstrate the ability to achieve higher levels of student academic performance. Grants are awarded based on the percentage of educationally disadvantaged students and high levels of achievement or growth in student achievement.
$408,000	Texas Education Agency-English Literacy and Civics (EL-Civics) grant	Expand the overall purpose of Adult Education and Literacy services by: 1) assisting adults to become literate and obtaining the knowledge and skills necessary for employment and self-sufficiency; 2) assisting adults who are parents to obtain the educational skills necessary to become full partners in the educational development of their children; and 3) assisting adults in the completion of a secondary school education by integrating programs and services that incorporate English Literacy and Civics Education.
$50,000	Texas Education Agency-Texas Accelerated Science Achievement Program (ASAP)	Provide funding for the implementation of scientific, research-based programs designed to improve the academic science performance of students, including programs designed to address the gender gap in performance.

Fiscal Year 2008-2009
$4,560,237	Texas Education Agency-District Award for Teacher Excellence (D.A.T.E.) Grant	Provide a teacher incentive awards program that supports the establishment of district-wide goals and the implementation of a financial awards system for teachers who improve student achievement. School districts and open enrollment charter schools that opt into DATE are required to participate in an unfunded planning year during the 2007-2008 school year to develop incentive award plans.
$250,000	Texas Education Agency-Texas Educator Excellence Grant (TEEG) Cycle 2	Provide a system of financial incentives to award educators who demonstrate the ability to achieve higher levels of student academic performance. Grants are awarded based on the percentage of educationally disadvantaged students and high levels of achievement or growth in student achievement.
$50,000	Texas Education Agency-Texas Accelerated Science Achievement Program (ASAP)	Provide funding for the implementation of scientific, research-based programs designed to improve the academic science performance of students, including programs designed to address the gender gap in performance.
$87,000	Texas Education Agency-Drop out Recovery Pilot	Offer students who have dropped out of public high school the opportunity to earn a high school diploma or demonstrate college readiness. Qualifying students must be 25 years of age or younger and must have dropped out of a Texas public school.

Fiscal Year 2009-2010
$346,000	Texas Education Agency-Investment capital Fund Grant (ICF)	Provide training to school staff, parents, and community leaders to understand academic standards, develop and implement effective strategies to improve student performance, and provide after school student enrichment activities at W.T. Francisco, Holiday Heights, Richland Elementary, Foster Village elementary, O.H. Sowe, David E. Smith
$278,000	Texas Education Agency-High Schools That Work (HSTW)	Support underperforming high schools in the use of the HSTW school improvement design as a framework to improve academic and career/technology instruction and overall student achievement.
$3,816,000	Texas Education Agency-Pre-Kindergarten Early Start Grant	The goal of the Prekindergarten Early Start Grant Program is to expand the state’s capacity to provide high-quality prekindergarten services to a greater number of eligible preschool students. The Prekindergarten Early Start Grant Program is designed to achieve this goal through its support of coordinated community partnerships that build on existing local resources to provide instructional services that help children reach their full potential as learners.
$800,000	Texas Education Agency-Even Start Family Literacy	Improve the academic achievement of parents and their young children, especially in the area of reading. Even Start provides educational services for the family, parents and children alike. For adults and children with limited English proficiency, Even Start helps them make progress toward acquisition of the English language and attainment of a high level of literacy.
$10,000,000	Texas Education Agency-21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) Cycle 6	Establish and expand community learning centers that provide students with academic enhancement activities, along with activities designed to complement the students’ regular academic programs. Community learning centers also offer families of these students’ literacy and related educational development opportunities and resources.
Fiscal Year 2010-2012
$400,000	Texas Education Agency-Investment Capital Fund grants Cycle 19	Provide training to school staff, parents, and community leaders to understand academic standards, develop and implement effective strategies to improve student performance, organize a large constituency of parents and community leaders that will hold the school and school district accountable for achieving high academic standards.
$2000,000	United Way-Early Learning and School Readiness Grant	Prepare low-income children in 76117 area of district to enter kindergarten with appropriate literacy, social, emotional, and cognitive skills.

$12,000,000	Texas Education Agency-21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) Cycle 7 ASPIRE 2	Establish and expand community learning centers that provide students with academic enhancement activities, along with activities designed to complement the students’ regular academic programs. Community learning centers also offer families of these students’ literacy and related educational development opportunities and resources.
$600,000	Texas Education Agency: Algebra Readiness Grants	To implement programs that increase the preparedness of students to meet standards and pass future assessments in Alegbra I at Richalnd and Haltom Middle Schools.