FEDERAL FUNDING
Blackwater Community School receives $3.7M federal grant for literacy programs
Blackwater Community SchoolArizonaBlackwater Community School received a $3,742,500 grant from the federal government on September 8, 2026, under the Innovative Approaches to Literacy program. The award supports programs designed to improve literacy skills for children and students from birth through grade 12.
- This action
- $3,742,500
- Not the award total
- Action date
- Sep 8, 2026
- 65 days ago
- Program
- Innovative Approaches to Literacy; Promise Neighborhoods; Full-Service Community Schools; and Congressionally Directed Spending for Elementary and Secondary Education Community Projects
- Assistance listing 84.215
- Spending window
- 4.9 years left
- Ends September 30, 2031
$3.7M awardedSep 8
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Award details
- Recipient
- Blackwater Community School
- Awarding agency
- Department of Labor
- Sub-agency
- Employment and Training Administration
- Awarding office
- DOL (Eta) Grants Management
- Assistance type
- Grant
- Action
- NEW AWARD
- Period of performance
- October 1, 2026 to September 30, 2031
- Award ID (FAIN)
- 26S60EI000008
About this award
From the award's filing with the federal government.
- Purpose
- Ial supports high quality programs designed to develop and improve literacy skills for children and students from birth through 12TH grade in high-need local educational agencies (leas) and schools
- Activities to be performed
- Ial promotes innovative literacy programs that (1) develop and enhance effective school library programs, which may include providing professional development for school librarians, books, and up-to-date materials to high-need schools (2) provide early literacy services, and (3) provide high-quality books on a regular basis to children and adolescents from low-income communities to increase reading motivation, performance, and frequency
- Expected outcomes
- Ial lists specific performance measures on which grantees are assessed. These include: the percentage of fourth graders participating in the project who demonstrated individual student growth over the past year on state reading or language arts assessments the percentage of eighth graders participating in the project who demonstrated individual student growth over the past year on state reading or language arts assessments the percentage of schools participating in the project whose book-to-student ratios increase from the previous year the percentage of participating children who receive at least one free, grade- and language-appropriate book of their own
- Intended beneficiaries
- Ial supports high quality programs designed to develop and improve literacy skills for children and students from birth through 12TH grade in high-need local educational agencies (leas) and schools
- Subrecipient activities
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From USAspending
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