Alexandria, VA (PRWEB) June 27, 2013
The California Department of Education (CDE) QZAB funds are available to college districts and charter schools who are seeking for funds for rehabilitating or repairing their facilities. These funds can also assist in the buy of gear, instructional components and providing teacher/administrative personnel professional development. The California Division of Education has $ 98 million allocated for the statewide QZAB plan.

National Education Foundation (NEF), the national non-profit leader in assisting schools to locate Federal funds, announced nowadays a nationwide initiative to award matching grants of up to $ two,000,000 every to any California school districts with at least 35% of students on cost-free or decreased price lunch. NEF grants focus on helping schools get required funds and bridging the academic divides by means of successful STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) education options.

Dr. Appu Kuttan, Chairman of the National Education Foundation (NEF), global professional in digital education and empowerment, and the current University of Wisconsin Distinguished Achievement Award winner, states, “School districts across the Nation are faced with serious spending budget cuts at a time US rankings in math, reading and science are nonetheless going down. Twenty four countries are ranked ahead of US in math. Our $ 100 million grant system would supply school districts the required 10% match, and hence enable them to obtain $ 1 billion in Federal QZAB funds (http://www.qzab.org) for energy efficiency, renovation, technology, teacher coaching and STEM academies. Additionally, schools located in low earnings communities could acquire extra Federal money grants.”

In addition to the 10% match grant, NEF helps the college districts to produce QZAB STEM+ academies capable of advancing a student a single grade level in a topic in 20-30 learning 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 program, “You are assisting to empower tomorrow’s leaders. I salute you for your ongoing commitment for making a greater and stronger America.”

According to Misty Weber, the QZAB academy plan director at the Warren County College District in PA, NEF helped us to acquire $ 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 learning hours. NEF also set up a parent academy to train our parents in job expertise, as effectively as a teacher academy to enhance our teachers teaching abilities.

In the higher 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 college district says, “NEF grant supplies a total finding out solution including differentiated finding out using the top-rated Pearson SuccessMaker and GradPoint courses, mentoring, teacher instruction and teacher-parent-student motivational incentives.”

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

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

About NEF

National Education Foundation (NEF), founded in 1989 in Washington, DC region, is the national non-profit leader in bridging the academic and job skills divides by way of high-quality, inexpensive STEM+ education solutions. NEF gives total STEM+ education options including six,000 leading-good quality Web-primarily based differentiated understanding courses, mentoring, motivational rewards, teacher stipends and teacher coaching to disadvantaged college districts across the nation.

Make contact with: Tamara Stephens
Grants Director
Tel: 703-823-9999
E-mail: qzab(at)qzab(dot)org
Internet sites: http://www.cyberlearning.org and http://www.qzab.org





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