In the agenda on October 6th, for the meeting of the School Board of Hillsborough County, issue 5.05 will be discussed, which is to approve the agreement for technical services for the Homeless Education and Literacy Project (HELP).
HELP is a grant-funded program intended to facilitate homeless students’ access to education in accordance with the provisions of the McKinney-Vento act.
The program will be put in to action by all district sites serving homeless students and families. The target audience of this program is the 2,026 students identified as homeless in 2008-09. The grant budget for the program is $125,000 and there was an evaluation budget of $6,000.
If approved, the grant will start on October 6th, 2009 and end on December 31st, 2010. The plans to run the program will be to complete interviews, meet with program managers and social workers, collect and analyze student data, write status reports and annual reports for the program, and coordinate with grant writers on the proposal for 2010-2011.
The issue of whether or not this is a worthy program is what will be discussed at the county board meeting.
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