| 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: | ABE Instructional Programs for Incarcerated Adults that have demonstrated the capacity to provide effective Adult Basic Education services to the incarcerated and other institutionalized adults. |
| Eligibility: | Eligible applicants are FY2009 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 7/1/2009 - 6/30/2010
Fund Code: 285 9/1/2009 - 8/31/2010
(Subject to appropriation of adequate federal and state funds.) |
| Contact: | Beverly Rosario brosario@doe.mass.edu |
| Phone Number: | (781) 338-3845 |
| Date Due: |
Fund Code: 563 Monday, May 18, 2009
Fund Code: 285 Monday, August 3, 2009
Proposals must be received at the Department by 5:00 p.m. on the date due. |
| Required Forms: |
Part I - General - Program Unit Signature Page - (Standard Contract Form and Application for Program Grants)
Part II Budget Detail Pages (Include both pages.) - Instructions
Budget and Match Narratives (Narratives designed by applicants.) 
Part III - Required Program Information - (Submit through the SMARTT Program Planning Module.)
Statement of Assurances
Schedule B - Cost Sharing or Matching Schedule
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| Additional Information: | 
SMARTT Manual - FY2010
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| Submission Instructions: | Submit two (2) sets of the application each with the original signature in blue ink of the Superintendent/Executive Director/President.
Mail to:
Magdi Mirhom
Fiscal Liaison
Adult and Community Learning Services
Massachusetts Department of
Elementary and Secondary Education
75 Pleasant Street 3rd Floor
Malden, MA 02148-4906
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