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Program Assessment
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Program
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Education State Grants for Innovative Programs
This program is a very flexible block grant that provides grants to States and school districts for a broad array of projects supporting reform and improvement of elementary and secondary education.
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Rating
What This Rating Means |
NOT PERFORMING Results Not Demonstrated
A rating of Results Not Demonstrated (RND) indicates that a program has not been able to develop acceptable performance goals or collect data to determine whether it is performing.
- Because this program gives States and school districts broad flexibility to fund virtually any K-12 activity, it is duplicative of other Federal, State, and local education programs. It is also not well targeted to meet the needs of children in high-need schools.
- It is difficult to evaluate the program's performance because funds may be used for a long list of activities. In addition, because most districts that receive funds also receive funds for other Department formula-grant programs, it is difficult to separate the program's effects from those of other programs. As a result, the program does not have strong performance measures.
- The Department has begun conducting site visits to assess whether funds are used for effective local activities.
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Improvement Plan
About Improvement Plans |
We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:
- Developing additional, meaningful performance measures for the program, collecting performance information, and setting targets for the measures.
- Continuing formal monitoring visits to States, including both on-site and "virtual" visits, to ensure that the program is funding effective local programs.
- Establishing baseline data and setting targets for the program's efficiency measures.
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