• Private Nonprofit Schools Participation with HISD in Federal Programs

    Principal Meeting

    Private Nonprofit (PNP) Schools in the city of Houston and surrounding areas are given the opportunity every year to participate with Houston ISD to receive equitable services from specific federal grant programs. The Department of External Funding provides guidance for three of the six federal programs. Click on the links below to view the program information.
     
    Improving Basic Programs for Economically Disadvantaged Students 
     
    Supporting Effective Instruction
     
    Nonprofit, as applied to an agency, organization, or institution, means that it is owned and operated by one or more corporations or associations whose net earnings do no benefit, and cannot lawfully benefit any private shareholder or entity.
     
    Participation should be equitable; therefore, HISD must consider ways to:
    • Assess, address, and evaluate the needs and progress of both public and private school teachers;
    • Spend an equal amount of funds per student to serve the needs of public and private school teachers and their students;
    • Provide private school teachers with an opportunity to participate in Title II activities equivalent to the opportunity provided for public school teachers; and
    • Offer educational services to private school teachers that are secular, neutral, and non-ideological

    Student Support and Academic Enrichment
     
    The purpose of Title IV, Part A is to improve students' academic achievement by increasing the capacity of states, local educational agencies, schools, and local communities to:
    • Provide access to and opportunities for a well-rounded education for all students,
    • Improve school conditions for student learning in order to create a healthy and safe school environment; and
    • Improve access to personalized learning experiences supported by technology and professional development for the effective use of data and technology

    For all federal Title programs, the equitable services must be supplemental (in addition to) and cannot supplant (replace or take the place of) services that would be provided to PNP school participants in the absence of federal funds.

    CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security) Act – ESSER Fund
    The ESSER (Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief) Fund under the CARES Act provides equitable services to participating private nonprofit schools that are physically located within the boundaries of HISD. This fund provides support to assist schools that have costs associated with the pandemic of the public health emergency with COVID-19. There are twelve specific allowable uses of funds for equitable services which have been determined by federal statute and federal and state guidance.

PNP Consultation Meetings

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