DOE Awards $33M Safe School Grants

More than $32.8 million in grants have been awarded to 18 states and the District of Columbia as part of a joint effort by the U.S. Departments of Education, Health and Human Services, and Justice to support schools in creating safer and healthier learning environments.

The highly competitive Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative attracted 422 grant applications nationally. Under the initiative, school districts, in partnership with local public mental-health agencies, law-enforcement and juvenile justice entities, must implement a comprehensive, community-wide plan that focuses on the following elements:

• Safe school environments and violence prevention activities
• Alcohol, tobacco and other drug prevention activities
• Student behavioral, social and emotional supports
• Mental-health services
• Early childhood social and emotional learning programs.

2009 Safe Schools/Healthy Students grantees are listed below:

• California
  Corning Union High School District
  Corning, CA
  $727,471

  El Rancho Unified School District
  Pico Rivera, CA
  $1,457,841

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  Escondido Union School District
  Escondido, CA
  $1,444,942

  Nevada County Superintendent of Schools
  Nevada City, CA
  $1,406,136

  Willits Unified School District
  Willitis, CA
  $731,992

  Yolo County Office of Education
  Woodland, CA
  $714,319

• District of ColumbiaWashington Latin Public Charter School
  Washington, DC
  $721,102
• Florida
  Madison County School District
  Madison, FL
  $729,347
• Georgia
  Rockdale County Public Schools
  Conyers, GA
  $1,145,240
• Indiana
  Perry Central Community School Corporation
  Leopold, IN
  $729,132
• Illinois
  Alton Community Unit School District #11
  Alton, IL
  $879,211

  Wabash Community Unit School District #348
  Mt. Carmel, IL
  $705,734

• Iowa
  Marshalltown Community School District
  Marshalltown, IA
  $1,390,660
• Kentucky
  Ashland Independent School District
  Ashland, KY
  $729,972
• Louisiana
  Recovery School District – LDE
  New Orleans, LA
  $1,434,068
• Massachusetts
  Hampden-Wilbraham Regional School District
  Wilbraham, MA
  $731,899
• Mississippi
  Vicksburg Warren School District
  Vicksburg, MS
  $1,463,456
• Montana
  Helena School District One
  Helena, MT
  $1,364,186
• New Jersey
  Trenton Public Schools
  Trenton, NJ
  $1,454,223
• New York
  Broome-Delaware-Tioga Board of Cooperative Services (BOCES)
  Binghamton, NY
  $1,402,892

  Oneida-Herkimer-Madison Board of Cooperative Services (BOCES)
  New Hartford, NY
  $1,462,996

  Sodus Central School District
  Sodus, NY
  $731,992

  Union Springs Central School District
  Union Springs, NY
  $1,435,968

• North Carolina
  Burke County Public Schools
  Morganton, NC
  $1,452,040
• Ohio
  Wood County Educational Services Center
  Bowling Green, OH
  $1,364,627
• South Carolina
  Kershaw County School District
  Camden, SC
  $1,431,287

  Saluda County School District
  Saluda, SC
  $711,500

• Texas
  Mission Consolidated Independent School District
  Mission, TX
  $1,457,901
• Virginia
  Albemarle County Public Schools
  Charlottesville, VA
  $1,456,378

To read the entire July 10 press release, click here.