| Purpose: | The purpose of this grant program is to establish free access to Adult Basic Education services for offenders, age 16 or older, who are in correctional institutions across the Commonwealth. Services will enhance the ability of institutionalized offenders to read, write, and speak English and to compute and solve problems at levels of proficiency necessary to function in society upon release from the correctional facility. Students will achieve their goals and develop their potential as individuals and as citizens. |
| Priorities: | Adult learning programs that have demonstrated the capacity to provide effective Adult Basic Education services to the incarcerated and other institutionalized adults. |
| Eligibility: | Eligible applicants are FY2007 recipients of awards under the Instructional Educational Programs for the Incarcerated and other grant programs for Institutionalized Adults that meet state and federal program and funding criteria. |
| Funding: | See Table 1 - Funding Allocations   |
| Fund Use: | Funds must be used for Adult Basic Education instructional services for incarcerated adults. |
| Project Duration: | Fund Code: 563 7/1/2007 - 6/30/2008 Fund Code: 285 9/1/2007 - 8/31/2008 |
| Contact: | Beverly Rosario Brosario@doe.mass.edu |
| Phone Number: | (781) 338-3845 |
| Date Due: | Fund Code: 563 Tuesday, May 1, 2007 Fund Code: 285 Wednesday, August 1, 2007 Proposals must be received at the Department by 5:00 p.m. on the date due. |
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Part I - General - Program Unit Signature Page - (Standard Contract Form and Application for Program Grants)
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Part II Budget Detail Pages (Include both pages) - Instructions
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Budget and Match Narratives (Narratives designed by applicants.)
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Part III - Required Program Information - (Submit through the SMARTT Program Planning Module.)
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Statement of Assurances
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Submission
Instructions: | Submit 2 sets of the application each with the original signature in blue ink of the Superintendent/Executive Director/President.
Mail to:
Charlene Collins
Fiscal Liaison
Adult and Community Learning Services
Massachusetts Department of
Elementary and Secondary Education
350 Main Street - 4th Floor
Malden, MA 02148-5023
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