Budget Amendment ID: FY2018-S3-157

EDU 157

Summer Learning Grants

Ms. Chang-Diaz, Messrs. Moore and O'Connor moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, by inserting the following new item:-

7061-xxxx: For the implementation of a competitive grant program to support the development and expansion of high quality, comprehensive summer learning opportunities for students in districts with high concentration of low income students; provided, that the department of elementary and secondary education shall develop the criteria for grants; provided further, that grants shall be awarded to programs that: (i) include at least 150 hours of programming with a focus on academic and college and career readiness skills, including critical thinking, collaboration and perseverance; (ii) are research-based summer programs; and (iii) engage a variety of organizations and leverage cost-sharing partnership with local districts, private funders, and nonprofit institutions....$500,000.