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That includes general operations funds forthe 2009-1o school year, funds for special education programs and programs that serve disadvantaged children, grants for schookl lunch equipment and funds for homeleses students. The funding includes $164.7 million in stabilization monety that has been included in the publix school funding formula forthe 2009-109 school year. School districts can use the money for regulatroperating expenses. It will be available July 1, pending approval by the U.S. Departmeny of Education. About $47.2 million will go toward projects under the Individuals with DisabilitieeEducation Act.
This represents about half of the speciakl education stimulus funds schools are expected to receivrein 2009. Schools can use this money to hire additionalo support staff andparent liaisons, do training and professiona development for special education teachers and hire job coaches to work with high schoolo students with special needs so they can enter the work The funds are available now. Abourt $38.7 million is in Title I funds fordisadvantaged That’s about half of the Titlr I funds schools are likely to receivd in 2009.
The money can be used for expanding after-schoo programs, hiring additional staff and professionap development for teachers and principals workingv in schools with highpoverty rates. That moneyt is also available now. All of that money has been allocated througn existingfunding formulas. Other awards the statd is disbursinginclude $548,313 for grants under the Education for the Homelesse Fund to address the needs of homeless In the new fiscal which starts in July, $383,313 will be awardede to 24 school districts.
Another $165,000 will be awardedc through a competitive grant process in About $924,743 will go toward purchasing or renovating food servicse equipment as part of the Nationa School Lunch Program. That money has been awarde to 31 districts and schools through a competitivgrant process.
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