The purpose of this competitive grant is to help grow the educator pipeline by engaging students into the teaching profession as a potential career path and placing them on a pathway to become educators.
Through this program, schools will provide high school seniors with paid internships to explore the teaching profession in an authentic and meaningful way. Students will gain valuable experience in a career-readiness program that offers a hands-on opportunity to work with elementary students in a classroom setting, learn instructional methods from mentor instructors, and engage in educator preparation curriculum.
As school districts across the country and in Massachusetts are facing a teacher shortage, accelerated by the impacts of the pandemic, this program offers multiple methods of addressing immediate and long-term impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic:
Competitive priority will be given to:
Eligible applicants are MassHire Workforce Boards and School Districts. Applicants must be the direct employer and payroll processor of the student interns and commit to the program described above.
Federal CFDA: 84.425 Federal Coronavirus Relief Programs - Federal Grant Programs
Federal grant funds must adhere to:
State Line Item 7009-6600
Approximately $1,500,000 is available.
This RFP is the governing document for these grant funds.
Funding is contingent upon availability. All dollar amounts listed are estimated/approximate and are subject to change. If more funding becomes available it will be distributed under the same guidelines that appear in this RFP document.
Recipients of the grant must:
Funds should be used for student wages, stipends, and direct expenses of administering the program. Funds may not be used for: teacher stipends, teacher/staff professional development and food/meals.
Upon Approval – 6/30/2024
CCTE
Ignacio Chaparro
Updated: February 2nd at 5:00PM
Proposals must be received at the Department by 5 p.m. Eastern on the date due.
All responses must be received by the due date listed above. Failure to do so will result in disqualification. Responses not received on time will not be reviewed. Applicants applying after the due date may be notified their application was received late and will not be reviewed. Applications must be submitted as directed in the Submissions Instructions below. Failure to do so may result in disqualification. If you need assistance with submitting your application, please reach out to the contact person listed on this funding opportunity
This grant will be submitted in our new GEM$ system. GEM$ is a cloud-based fiscal and program management grant system that will eventually phase out the use of EdGrants.
Grants for Education Management System (GEM$)
Competitive grant applications are considered submitted when the Superintendent / Chief Executive approves the grant application in GEM$. In order to be considered for competitive funding, applicants must submit a grant application through the LEA Superintendent Approved stage by the due date listed in the RFP.
Please Note: Grant Submission requires applicants to have their organization established in GEM$. Entities that do not have an organization in GEM$ must contact the DESE Program Unit issuing this grant at a minimum 5 business days prior to the due date for temporary organization access.
Failure to provide DESE with GEMS Request Form at least 5 business days prior to the due date may result in not meeting the submission due date listed above. DESE cannot accept or review applications after the due date.
Last Updated: March 8, 2024
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