CFDA Number: | 84.184B - Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Mentoring Program |
Program Goal: To support mentoring programs and activities for children who are at risk of educational failure, dropping out of school, or involvement in criminal or delinquent activities, or who lack strong positive role models. |
Objective 1 of 1: Provide grants to community-based organizations and local school districts to support mentoring programs for high-risk youth. |
Indicator 1.1 of 3: Sustained mentoring matches: Proportion of student-mentor matches that are sustained for over one year. |
Source: Annual Grantee Performance Report Frequency: Annually. Next Data Available: October 2006 Data Validated By: On-Site Monitoring By ED. Explanation: No target is established for a cohort in the first year after award because grant sites will need to have operated for a minimum of 12 months in order to produce any student-mentor matches that meet the criteria established for this measure. The FY 2006 target is to establish the baseline for the 2004 cohort, and the FY 2007 target is to establish the baseline for the 2005 cohort. |
Indicator 1.2 of 3: Improved academic achievement: The proportion of mentored students demonstrating improved academic competencies. |
Source: Annual Grantee Performance Report Frequency: Annually. Next Data Available: October 2006 Explanation: No target is established for a cohort in the first year after award because grant sites will need to have operated for a minimum of 12 months to report data that meet the criteria for this measure. The FY 2006 target is to establish a baseline for the 2004 cohort, and the FY 2007 target is to establish a baseline for the 2005 cohort. |
Indicator 1.3 of 3: Unexcused absences: Proportion of mentored students with unexcused absences. |
Source: Annual Grantee Performance Report Frequency: Annually. Next Data Available: November 2006 Data Validated By: On-Site Monitoring By ED. Limitations: It is important to note that of 146 grantees who submitted performance reports in 2005, only 31 (21.2%) of them provided aggregable data that is responsive to the established performance measure. The remaining 115 grantees either provided no data, no aggregable data, or data that did not respond to the established performance measure. Explanation: Of the 1358 mentored students from grantees reporting data on this measure, 535 had at least one unexcused absence. The FY 2005 data established a baseline for the 2004 cohort. The FY 2006 target is based on a 30% decrease in the second year, and the FY 2007 target is based on a 40% decrease by the third year. The FY 2006 target is to establish a baseline for the 2005 cohort. The FY 2007 target is to establish a baseline for the 2006 cohort. |