(PRWEB) July 05, 2013
There is $ 40 million dollars offered for Michigan college districts who are seeking for funds for rehabilitating or repairing their facilities. These funds can also assist in the buy of gear, instructional materials and delivering teacher/administrative personnel expert development.

The National Education Foundation (NEF), the national non-profit leader in assisting schools to find Federal funds, announced today a nationwide initiative to award matching grants of up to $ two,000,000 each and every to any Michigan college districts with at least 35% of students on cost-free or reduced cost lunch. NEF grants focus on helping schools get required funds and bridging the academic divides by means of effective STEM (Science, Technologies, Engineering, and Math) education options.

Dr. Appu Kuttan, Chairman of the National Education Foundation (NEF), worldwide professional in digital education and empowerment, and the recent University of Wisconsin Distinguished Achievement Award winner, states, “College districts across the Nation are faced with critical budget cuts at a time US rankings in math, reading and science are nevertheless going down. Twenty four nations are ranked ahead of US in math. Our $ 100 million grant system would provide school districts the necessary ten% match, and thus enable them to acquire $ 1 billion in Federal QZAB funds (http://www.qzab.org) for power efficiency, renovation, technology, teacher coaching and STEM academies. Additionally, schools situated in low earnings communities could obtain added Federal cash grants.”

In addition to the ten% match grant, NEF assists the school districts to generate QZAB STEM+ academies capable of advancing a student 1 grade level in a topic in 20-30 understanding hours in the NEF program, as documented by the State University of NY (SUNY), which implements the academies nationally with a grant from NEF.

President Bill Clinton has commended NEFs STEM+ academy plan, “You are assisting to empower tomorrow’s leaders. I salute you for your ongoing commitment for generating a far better and stronger America.”

According to Misty Weber, the QZAB academy plan director at the Warren County School District in PA, NEF helped us to obtain $ 34 million in QZAB funds for renovating our school facilities. In addition, NEFs QZAB academy, implemented by SUNY, helped our students to advance a grade level in in math in 22 understanding hours. NEF also set up a parent academy to train our parents in job expertise, as effectively as a teacher academy to improve our teachers teaching abilities.

In the high school for at-danger students in Virginias Prince William County, the graduation rate went up from 61% to 87%.

Kirsten DeMento, Curriculum Director of New Yorks Watervliet school district says, “NEF grant provides a total understanding solution which includes differentiated learning making use of the prime-rated Pearson SuccessMaker and GradPoint courses, mentoring, teacher coaching and teacher-parent-student motivational incentives.”

The NEF STEM system, formulated at the Clinton Worldwide Initiative in Chicago, also creates college-college-enterprise partnerships to offer planet-class STEM+ academies for disadvantaged schools at no expense to the schools.

To apply for the QZAB grant, visit http://www.qzab.org.

About NEF

National Education Foundation (NEF), founded in 1989 in Washington, DC location, is the national non-profit leader in bridging the academic and job expertise divides by way of high-high quality, inexpensive STEM+ education solutions. NEF gives total STEM+ education solutions such as 6,000 leading-good quality Internet-based differentiated finding out courses, mentoring, motivational rewards, teacher stipends and teacher coaching to disadvantaged school districts across the nation.

Make contact with: Tamara Stephens 
Grants Director





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