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National School Lunch Program
Partner: US Department of Agriculture
Description: The NSLP began in North Dakota in 1946. The
purpose of the program is to safeguard the health and welfare of
our nation’s children and to encourage the consumption of nutritious
agricultural commodities. Meals served are intended to meet
at least one-third the Recommended Dietary Allowances. Studies
have shown that students are more alert and attentive if they have
adequate nourishment throughout the school day.
Funds and/or Benefits: Reimbursement is provided for meals that meet federal
requirements. The amount of reimbursement received by a local
agency is dependent upon the number of meals served to children in
three eligibility categories: free, reduced price and full price. If
local agencies serve a school population in which 60% or more of
the meals served are to low-income children, an extra $.02/lunch
is provided in meal reimbursement.
Contact: Linda Glaser at 701/328-4565 Top
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School Breakfast Program
Partner: US Department of Agriculture
Description: The SBP was authorized by the Child Nutrition Act of
1966 and made available to all schools in 1975. It was established
to provide nutritious breakfasts to children who come to school hungry
and experience difficulty with both physical and academic achievement.
Funds and/or Benefits: Local agencies with at least 40 % of enrolled children
eligible for free or reduced-price meals may receive the Severe Need
(SN) rate of reimbursement by completing additional reports. Any
public or private non-profit school or residential childcare institution
is eligible to participate in the program.
Contact: Linda Glaser at 701/328-4565 Top
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Special Milk Program
Partner: US Department of Agriculture
Description: The SMP provides milk to children in schools and other
agencies that do not participate in other federal meal service programs. The
program was created to increase children’s consumption of fluid milk
by providing low cost milk at additional times during the school
day.
Funds and/or Benefits: Reimbursement is provided to those schools that do not
have a federally funded meal program or to students in split session
kindergarten programs who do not have access to school breakfast
or lunch. Schools receiving reimbursement must pass on a substantial
portion of the reimbursement to the child as a reduced milk price.
Contact: Linda Glaser at 701/328-4565 Top
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Child and Adult Care Food Program
Partner: US Department of Agriculture
Description: The main purpose of the CACFP is to improve the diets
of children twelve years of age and younger. Since children
need well-balanced meals to meet their daily energy and nutritional
needs, the CACFP program established meal patterns based on those
dietary needs.
Funds and/or Benefits: The program provides reimbursement
and commodity/cash assistance that helps childcare facilities to
provide children with
nutritious meals. Three meals per day per child can be claimed
for reimbursement. Licensed public
or private non-profit childcare or adult day care centers are eligible
for the program, as are Head Start programs. Also, licensed
family or group day care homes may participate under a sponsoring
organization.
Contact: Linda Glaser at 701/328-4565 Top
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Summer Food Service Program
Partner: US Department of Agriculture
Description: The SFSP provides meals to children 18 years of age and
younger in low-income areas during the summer months when school
lunch is not available.
Funds and/or Benefits: The program provides reimbursement for meals or snacks
served to children at eligible sites. Administrative funding
is also available to help defray the costs of administering the program
at the local level. Participation in this program requires
that a foodservice site include areas that serve a population of
at least 50% needy children. Organizations eligible to participate
include public or private non-profit schools, non-profit residential
camps, state/local/municipal and county governments and private non-profit
organizations.
Contact: Linda Glaser at 701/328-4565 Top
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Commodity Food Distribution
Partner: US Department of Agriculture
Description: The NDDPI distributes commodity foods to help meet the
nutritional needs of children and adults. Commodities are acquired
through legislative programs including price support, surplus removal
and special purchase. The types of foods purchased are based
on the nutritional needs of children and other individuals, local
agency preferences, the market supply and prices of foods.
Funds and/or Benefits: The USDA pays for the initial processing and packaging
of foods and for transportation to North Dakota. The NDDPI
is the distributing agency responsible for storing food, transporting
it throughout the state and ensuring distribution to eligible recipients. The
NDDPI enters into warehousing and transportation contracts with North
Dakota businesses to provide these services to local agencies. These
expenses are supported by local and federal funds. As an additional
service, the NDDPI enters processing agreements in which certain
commodity foods are further processed into more useable end products
with the value passed on to the recipient agency in the form of a
discount or rebate.
Contact: Linda Glaser at 701/328-4565 Top
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Temporary Emergency Food Assistance
Program
Partner: US Department of Agriculture
Description: The TEFAP program was initiated in 1981 to help reduce
inventories and storage costs of surplus commodities while helping
to aid the nutritional needs of low-income Americans. In 1988,
the Hunger Prevention Act provided additional foods and provided
for the purchase of foods to help support meals served in soup kitchens
and to the homeless.
Funds and/or Benefits: The NDDPI allocates the food made available under TEFAP
to the eight regional Community Action agencies. These agencies
administer the program locally by supporting the network of food
pantries and soup kitchens.
Contact: Linda Glaser at 701/328-4565 Top
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Food Distribution Program on Indian
Reservations
Partner: US Department of Agriculture
Description: The FDPIR provides commodity foods to income and otherwise
eligible households who live on or near Indian reservations. The
purpose of the program is to provide a more nutritious diet and an
acceptable nutritional alternative to the Food Stamp program.
Funds and/or Benefits: The NDDPI provides administrative and support services
for four reservations and one Indian Service Area in North Dakota
and one reservation in South Dakota. To be eligible for the
program, families must meet income eligibility and other criteria.
Participants may receive benefits under either the FDPIR program
or the Food Stamp program.
Contact: Linda Glaser at 701/328-4565 Top
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School Health Programs
Partner: US Centers for Disease Control and the US Department
of Health and Human Services
Description: Funds support the development and implementation of school
health programs to prevent serious health problems for youth.
Funds and/or Benefits: Funds are allocated for professional development, Native
American youth programs and technical assistance to schools, surveillance
of youth and program evaluation. The grant partners the state
Health Department and the NDDPI.
Contact: Valerie Fischer at 701/328-4138 Top
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Adult Basic Education
Partner: US Department of Education
Description: Funds are used to improve educational
opportunities for learners 16 years of age or older who have not
graduated from secondary school and who lack sufficient mastery of
basic educational skills.
Funds and/or Benefits: Funds are used to support Adult
Learning Centers across the state and for statewide leadership activities.
Allocation of funds is based on a competitive application process.
Contact: G. David Massey at 701/328-3600 Top
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Services for Children with
Deaf-Blindness
Partner: US Department of Education
Description: Funds are intended for technical assistance
and support projects for parents, families and service providers
of children with deaf-blindness.
Funds and/or Benefits: Funds are awarded to the School
for the Deaf to provide technical assistance and support programs
for parents, families and service providers of children with deaf-blindness.
Contact: Kathy Smith at 701/328-2615 Top
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Special Education Act (IDEA) Part
B
Partner: US Department of Education
Description: Funds are used by state and local educational
agencies to help provide the special education and related services
needed to make a free, appropriate public education available to
all eligible children with one or more of thirteen specified
disabilities.
Funds and/or Benefits: Allocations are made to special
education units based on a base amount plus 85% of the remaining
amount distributed on the relative number of children enrolled in
schools in a special education unit. The remaining 15% is allocated
based on the number of children in the unit eligible for free and
reduced meals.
Contact: Kathy Smith at 701/328-2615 Top
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Special Education Act (IDEA) State
Program Improvement Grant for Children with Disabilities
Partner: US Department of Education
Description: The grant is to assist state educational agencies and
their partners in reforming and improving their systems for providing
educational, early intervention and transitional services; including
their systems for professional development, technical assistance
and dissemination of knowledge about best practices to improve results
for children with disabilities.
Funds and/or Benefits: Funding is used to provide statewide training for special
education professionals, to recruit and retain qualified special
education and related services personnel in the state and to support
youth with disabilities to attain positive secondary level transition
planning and access to services of adult agencies.
Contact: Kathy Smith at 701/328-2615 Top
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Special Education Act (IDEA)
Preschool Program
Partner: US Department of Education
Description: Funds are used by state and local educational agencies
to help provide the special education and related services needed
to make a free appropriate public education available to children,
ages three years to five years, with disabilities.
Funds and/or Benefits: Allocations are made to special education units based
on a base amount plus 85% of the remaining amount distributed on
the relative number of children enrolled in the schools in the special
education unit. The remaining 15% is allocated based on the
number of children in the unit eligible for free and reduced meals.
Contact: Kathy Smith at 701/328-2615 Top
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Title I Compensatory Education
Partner: US Department of Education
Description: The goal of Title I is to provide instructional services
and activities to meet the needs of disadvantaged children identified
as failing, or most at risk of failing, the state’s challenging performance
standards.
Funds and/or Benefits: Allocation of funds is based on free and reduced meals,
foster care count and census data.
Contact: Laurie Matzke at 701/328-2284 Top
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Title I Migrant Education
Partner: US Department of Education
Description: Funds are used to support summer educational programs
that address the needs of migratory children ages 0-21.
Funds and/or Benefits: Allocation of funds is based on migrant student enrollment.
Contact: Sandy Peterson at 701/328-2170 Top
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I Reading First
Partner: US Department of Education
Description: The purpose of Reading First is to ensure that all children
in America learn to read well by the end of third grade. Teaching young
children to read is the most critical educational priority facing this
country.
Funds and/or Benefits: Allocation of funds is based on a competitive
application process.
Contact: Gail Schauer 701/328-2285 Top of Page
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Title I Program for Neglected
and Delinquent Children and Youth
Partner: US Department of Education
Description: Funds are used to meet the special educational needs
of neglected or delinquent children in local as well as state agency
institutions or community day school programs. Services must
be a supplement to those normally provided with state funds.
Funds and/or Benefits: Allocation of funds is calculated by the U.S. Department
of Education based on adjusted enrollment.
Contact: Nita Wirtz at 701/328-1876 Top
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Title I Program Improvement
Partner: US Department of Education
Description: Funds are used to support state and local efforts to
improve low-performing schools.
Funds and/or Benefits: Allocation
of funds is based on a competitive application process.
Contact: Laurie Matzke at 701/328-2284 Top
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Title I Education for Homeless
Children and Youth
Partner: US Department of Education
Description: The funds are used to ensure that all homeless children
and youth in the state have equal access to the same free, appropriate
public education provided to other children and youth. The
NDDPI provides services and sub-grants to local educational agencies
to ensure the removal or revision of policies that prove to be barriers
to the enrollment, attendance and success of homeless children and
youth in schools.
Funds and/or Benefits: Allocation of funds is based on a competitive application
process.
Contact: Stefanie Two Crow at 701/328-4646 Top
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Title I Even Start Family Literacy
Program
Partner: US Department of Education
Description: The funds are used to provide family-centered education
projects. Even Start provides integrated programming in early
childhood education, adult basic education, parenting education and
Parent and Child Time Together (PACT). This program helps parents
become partners in the education of their children, helps children
reach their full potential as learners and helps provide literacy
training for parents.
Funds and/or Benefits: Allocation
of funds is based on a competitive application process.
Contact: Dale Patrick at 701/328-1644 Top
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Title II Part A Teacher and
Principal Training and Recruiting
Partner: US Department of Education
Description: Funds are made available to school districts
and state agencies for higher education to improve teaching and student
learningin the core subject areas. Activities provide sustained
and intensive high-quality professional development that can help
students achieve high academic standards and reduce class sizes.
Funds and/or Benefits: Allocation of funds is based on school enrollment and
low-income units.
Contact: Greg Gallagher at 701/328-1838 or Paula Gabel
at 701/328-2296 Top
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Title II Part D Enhancing Education
Through Technology
Partner: US Department of Education
Description: Grants are provided to school districts
for technology-related professional development and the implementation
of technology-enhanced curricula, instruction and to improve delivery
of educational services. Grants are provided both by formula and
by competition.
Funds and/or Benefits: The method for allocation of
funds for the formula program is based on low income units.
Contact: Chris Kalash at 701/328-2273 Top
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- Title III Part A - English Language
Acquisition, Language Enhancement, and Academic Achievement Grants
- Sub-grants
for English Language Acquisition and Language Enhancement
Partner: US Department of Education
Description: Funds are to be used to implement language instruction
educational programs designed to help limited English proficient
(LEP) students achieve these standards. Approaches and methodologies
used must be based on scientifically based research. LEAs may
develop and implement new language instruction programs, expand or
enhance
existing programs, implement schoolwide programs within individual
schools or system-wide programs to restructure, reform, or upgrade
all programs, activities, or operations related to the education
of LEP students.
Funds and/or Benefits: Funds are awarded to consortia of local
education agencies for a three-year period through an application
process with
the state.
Contact: Mari B. Rasmussen at 701/328-2958
or via e-mail at mrasmussen@nd.gov. Top
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- National Professional Development Grants
Partner: US Department of Education
Description: Funds are available for professional development
activities that will improve instruction for students with limited
English proficiency
(LEP) and assists education personnel working with such
children to meet high professional standards.
Funds and/or Benefits: Funds are awarded to eligible institutions
of higher education in consortia with local education agencies
and/or state education agencies through a competition by
the US Department
of Education. Requests for proposals are published in the
Federal Register.
Contact: Mari Rasmussen
at 701/328-2958 or via e-mail at mrasmussen@nd.gov. Top
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- Title III Part B - Improving
Language Instruction Education Programs: Native American and
Alaska Native Children in School
Program
Partner: US Department of Education
Description: Funds provide grants to eligible entities that support
language instruction educational projects for limited
English proficient (LEP) children from Native American, Alaska Native, native
Hawaiian,
and Pacific Islander backgrounds. The program is designed
to ensure that LEP children master English and meet the same rigorous standards
for academic achievement that all children are expected
to meet,
including meeting challenging State academic content
and student academic achievement standards and to support, to the extent
possible,
the native language skills of such children. Funds
may support the study of Native American languages.
Funds and/or Benefits: Funds are awarded to eligible
local education agencies through a competition by the
US Department of Education.
Requests for proposals are published in the Federal
Register.
Contact: Mari
Rasmussen at 701/328-2958 or via e-mail at mrasmussen@nd.govTop
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- Title V Part D - Foreign
Language Assistance Program
Partner: US Department of Education
Description: Funds are to be used to pay for the federal share of
the cost of innovative model programs providing
for the establishment, improvement, or expansion of foreign language
study for elementary
and secondary school students. In awarding grants
under this program, the secretary supports projects that (a) show
the promise of being
continued beyond their project period and (b)
demonstrate approaches that can be disseminated and duplicated by
other local education
agencies.
Funds and/or Benefits: Funds are awarded to eligible
local education agencies through a competition
by the US Department of Education.
Requests for proposals are published in the Federal
Register.
Contact: Mari
B. Rasmussen at 701/328-2958 or via e-mail at
mrasmussen@nd.gov. Top
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- Refugee Children
School Impact Grant Program
Partner: US Department of Health and Human Services
Description: Funds are used for extracurricular
and after school activities for refugee students.
Funds and/or Benefits: Funds are awarded to
local education agencies through an application basis. Applications
are
available through the state.
Contact: Mari Rasmussen at 701/328-2958 Top
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- Title IV Safe and Drug Free Schools
and Communities
Partner: US Department of Education
Description: The funds support programs that prevent violence in and
around schools, prevent the illegal use of alcohol/tobacco/drugs,
involve parents, and coordinate with other related federal, state
and community efforts and resources.
Funds and/or Benefits: Funds are allocated based on school enrollment and on
demonstrated need based on a competitive application process.
Contact: Valerie Fischer at 701/328-4138 Top
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Title IV Part B 21st
Century Community Learning Centers
Partner: US Department of Education
Description: The funds support programs that provide
students with academic enrichment opportunities along with activities
designed to complement the students' regular academic program.
Funds and/or Benefits: Funds are allocated based upon
a competitive application process.
Contact: Dale Patrick at 701/328-1644 Top
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