Deadline: 12-May-22
The California Department of Education is offering grants under the Learning Communities for School Success Program (LCSSP) to support programs that aimed at improving student outcomes by reducing truancy and supporting students who are at risk of dropping out of school or are victims of crime.
Goals
The goals of the LCSSP are to support evidence-based, non-punitive programs and practices aimed at keeping the state’s most vulnerable pupils in school. These programs and practices must complement and enhance the actions and services identified to meet the LEA’s goals as provided in their LCAP, regardless if the LEA is applying alone or part of a consortium.
Funding Priorities
- All eligible LEAs may apply for an LCSSP grant. In selecting grant recipients, status requires that priority be given to an LEA that meets any of the following criteria:
- Has a high rate of chronic absenteeism, out-of-school suspension, or school dropout for (1) the general pupil population, or (2) for a numerically significant pupil subgroup as identified in the LEA’s LCAP.
- Is in a community with a crime rate that exceeds the state average.
- Has a significant representation of foster youth among its pupil enrollment.
- Where all schools within an LEA are not included in the grant, eligibility will be based on districtwide data rather than on only the participating schools
Funding Information
- Recipient Amount Up to $2,000,000
Outcomes
Program outcomes identified in the LCSSP application can target and include, but are not limited to:
- State measures
- School attendance rate
- Chronic absenteeism rate
- Middle school dropout rate
- High school dropout rate
- Pupil suspension spleen
- Math proficiency rate (meets or exceeds)
- English language arts proficiency rate (meets or exceeds)
- Local Measures
- Improvement in pupil engagement
- Improvement in school climate
- Improvement in equity
- Reductions in community crime by enrolled students
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Agencies
- Applicant agencies are limited to LEAs within the State of California that serve students in K–12, inclusive. This includes school districts, charter schools, and county offices of education (COEs) in their role as providers of direct student services in COE-operated schools.
- All applicants and consortium members must have a CDE-assigned County/District/School (CDS) identification code and must be classified as an active LEA by the CDE.
- Individual schools are not eligible to apply. Only the LEA may apply on behalf of an individual school or schools within the LEA’s jurisdiction.
- Community agencies, private schools, and state special schools are not eligible to apply for a LCSSP grant. They may, however, participate as a grant partner.
For more information, visit https://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/fo/profile.asp?id=5782