UNION SPRINGS - A number of local school districts will get extra cash for specialized programming in upcoming years as they were recently awarded a handful of grants.
State and federal monies will be trickling into six Cayuga-Onondaga Board of Cooperative Educational Services component school districts over the next several years by way of three competitive grants, the largest of which is $5.7 million over four years and shared between five districts.
The federal Safe Schools/Healthy Students grant will provide $1.4 million annually, split between the Cato-Meridian, Jordan-Elbridge, Moravia, Southern Cayuga and Union Springs central school districts, to promote healthy living to area students.
This grant, which includes money from the federal Departments of Education, Health and Human Services and Justice to support schools in creating safe and healthier learning environments, will provide funding to spur programs that deal with violence prevention, substance abuse education, services for foster families and students, mental health services and early childhood development.
Districts have autonomy to design programs within these categories that meet individual needs.
For example, the Southern Cayuga Board of Education had to reduce the school resource officer position to part time due to budgetary constraints. Now that the district has this grant, they are using some money embedded within to fund the second half of the position to make it full-time.
But districts such as Union Springs that already have an SRO cannot use the grant to supplant current costs, so leaders may opt to organize a different program to accomplish the goals of the grant.
What makes this grant significant for recipients is that they are among 29 of 400 entities nationwide that received this funding.
“I'm hoping that we'll be able to encourage our children to lead healthy lives,” Union Springs Superintendent Linda Rice said of the grant.
Union Springs is the lead organization that is administering this grant, with the aid of Partnership for Results.
But the Safe Schools/Healthy Students grant is only one branch of a three-tiered effort to strengthen the school community and student performance.
A second grant, funded by the federal Department of Education and administered by the Port Byron school district, will fund mental health clinicians for elementary students in the Port Byron, Union Springs, Cato-Meridian and Jordan-Elbridge districts.
“The elementary mental health clinicians will help our children and families that require services maybe a little differently, a little more uniquely, because they can support the children in the home and in school,” Partnership for Results Chief Operating and Financial Officer Katie Moran said.
And a third, an Advantage After School Grant, shared between Union Springs and Port Byron, funded by the state Office of Family Services and administered by Partnership for Results, will bring after school academic enrichment opportunities for students from grades seven through 12.
The grant has a five-year life span which will begin in October.
Staff writer Alyssa Sunkin can be reached at 253-5311 ext. 239 or alyssa.sunkin@lee.net
The federal Safe Schools/Healthy Students grant will provide $1.4 million annually, split between the Cato-Meridian, Jordan-Elbridge, Moravia, Southern Cayuga and Union Springs central school districts, to promote healthy living to area students.
This grant, which includes money from the federal Departments of Education, Health and Human Services and Justice to support schools in creating safe and healthier learning environments, will provide funding to spur programs that deal with violence prevention, substance abuse education, services for foster families and students, mental health services and early childhood development.
Districts have autonomy to design programs within these categories that meet individual needs.
For example, the Southern Cayuga Board of Education had to reduce the school resource officer position to part time due to budgetary constraints. Now that the district has this grant, they are using some money embedded within to fund the second half of the position to make it full-time.
But districts such as Union Springs that already have an SRO cannot use the grant to supplant current costs, so leaders may opt to organize a different program to accomplish the goals of the grant.
What makes this grant significant for recipients is that they are among 29 of 400 entities nationwide that received this funding.
“I'm hoping that we'll be able to encourage our children to lead healthy lives,” Union Springs Superintendent Linda Rice said of the grant.
Union Springs is the lead organization that is administering this grant, with the aid of Partnership for Results.
But the Safe Schools/Healthy Students grant is only one branch of a three-tiered effort to strengthen the school community and student performance.
A second grant, funded by the federal Department of Education and administered by the Port Byron school district, will fund mental health clinicians for elementary students in the Port Byron, Union Springs, Cato-Meridian and Jordan-Elbridge districts.
“The elementary mental health clinicians will help our children and families that require services maybe a little differently, a little more uniquely, because they can support the children in the home and in school,” Partnership for Results Chief Operating and Financial Officer Katie Moran said.
And a third, an Advantage After School Grant, shared between Union Springs and Port Byron, funded by the state Office of Family Services and administered by Partnership for Results, will bring after school academic enrichment opportunities for students from grades seven through 12.
The grant has a five-year life span which will begin in October.
Staff writer Alyssa Sunkin can be reached at 253-5311 ext. 239 or alyssa.sunkin@lee.net
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