Keystones to Opportunity Grant (Striving Readers) Pre-Application Overview

Presenter(s)

Cindy Anderson
Jo Beth McKee
Sandy Strunk

Webinar Description

The Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) has been awarded $38 million through the United States Department of Education’s Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Program. The Keystones to Opportunity (Striving Readers) Grant was awarded to support Pennsylvania’s comprehensive approach to improving literacy outcomes for all children, including disadvantaged students, limited English proficient students and students with disabilities.

Pennsylvania will hold competitions to award 95 percent of the funds as "sub grants" to local education associations. Preliminary criteria for the sub grant competition include: need, capacity, comprehensive literacy plan (birth through 12th grade), needs self- assessment, quality of proposed or existing program, target population and quality of data.This webinar will address the pre-application stage of the award process.

Target Audience

LEAs

Past Sessions
Date	Time
December 6, 2011	5:30pm - 7:00pm
December 7, 2011	2:00pm - 3:30pm
December 9, 2011	9:00am - 10:30am