Delaware Administrative Code
Title 14 - Education
900 - Special Populations
917 - Accelerated Academic Programs
Section 917-2.0 - Applications for Accelerated Academic Program Grants
Current through Register Vol. 28, No. 3, September 1, 2024
2.1 By August 1 of each calendar year, the Department of Education shall determine if the state has allocated funds for grants under this regulation and 14 Del.C. § 3113. If such grants have been allocated, the Department shall ensure that applications for such grants are delivered by September 1 of the same calendar year to each public school in the state.
2.2 Applications for grants under this regulation shall be due by October 1 of each calendar year, and decisions regarding grants shall be made by November 1 of each calendar year.
2.3 All decisions regarding the awarding of grants shall be made according the numeric scoring rubric outlined in Section 3.0 of this regulation, and the scoring sheets used to determine grantees shall be preserved and considered public information.
2.4 Grants under this regulation and 14 Del.C. § 3113 shall be for a one-year period. Absent some affirmative showing by the Department as to why a grant awarded under this regulation should not be renewed, it will be renewed for a second year to a recipient that complies with the conditions of the grant. Grants under this regulation shall not be awarded for more than two years.
2.5 Only programs that offer educational services specifically targeted at students who are capable of performing advanced academic work may receive grants under this regulation and 14 Del.C. § 3113. Proposed programs may include programming in areas that are not academic work as defined by this regulation provided that the stated purpose of the program and effect of its curriculum is improved student performance in academic work.
2.6 Only programs that propose a method for assessing the impact of the proposed program on participating students' academic growth may receive grants under this regulation and 14 Del.C. § 3113.
2.7 Proposed programs that do not meet the requirements of subsection 2.5 and 2.6 cannot receive grant funds and will not be scored under the rubric established by Section 3.0.
2.8 Grants under this regulation and 14 Del.C. § 3113 are limited to new programs and existing programs whose funding sources are expiring. Grants shall not be awarded to supplant existing funds for current programs. Any proposal for an existing program to receive funds must specify the existing funding source for the program, specify the reason that the existing funding source is expiring, and explain why the proposed grant would not be supplanting existing funds.
