The Clarke County School District is one of three winners of a grant from the Governor's Innovation Fund. Clarke received an Implementation Grant for its Pathway of Support: Trauma-Informed Care. The grant provides each winner up to $700,000 over two and a half years to pilot an education program aligned with one of the Innovation Fund priority areas. They include STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) applied learning, blended learning and birth-to-age-eight language and literacy development. The Crisp County School System also won an Implementation award. Westside High School in Bibb County was the winner of a Scaling Grant.
Implementation Grants will provide each winner up to $700,000 over two and a half years to pilot an innovative education program aligned with one of the Innovation Fund priority areas. Scaling Grants will provide each winner up to $700,000 over two and a half years to scale a successful existing program to serve more students, teachers or leaders.
Gov. Nathan Deal announced the award winners for Implementation Grants and Scaling Grants Wednesday. The fund are administered through the Innovation Fund, a competitive grant program that provides funding to school districts, traditional public schools, charter schools and regional education service agencies to further advance student achievement in Georgia.