SFSF Information

SFSF
State Fiscal Stabilization Fund Recovery Plan
$45.5 Billion

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PURPOSE

Stabilize State and local government budgets to avoid reductions in education and other essential public services while driving education reform in four key areas: teacher effectiveness and inequities in the distribution of highly qualified teachers; rigorous college- and career-ready standards and assessments; targeted, intensive support and effective interventions to turn around struggling schools; and pre-K-through-college-and-career data systems.

The U.S. Department has identified the following examples of specific projects that grantees might consider to achieve the objectives of the ARRA:

  • Improve student achievement through school improvement and reform.
  • Modernize school facilities such as by investing in green technology.
  • Redesign teacher professional development and school schedules to ensure that teacher learning opportunities are sustained, job-embedded, collaborative, data-driven, and focused on student instructional needs.
  • Strengthen and expand early learning.

SCHEDULE

MILESTONE DATE
The Department released the SFSF State grants application and general program guidance on April 1, 2009. The Department made its first Phase 1 SFSF grant award to California, Illinois, and South Dakota on April 17, 2009, and will be making Phase 1 awards on a rolling basis. The Department released detailed guidance on the ARRA maintenance-of-effort requirements on May 1, 2009 and expects to award all Phase 1 grants by August 3, 2009. 2009-08-03
The Department will post for public comment the Notice of Proposed Priorities (NPP) for the Phase 2 grant competition in June 2009. The NPP will include the proposed performance measures. 2009-06-30
The Department expects to make all Phase 2 SFSF awards by the end of December 2009. 2010-12-31

*(all items marked in red support RM Education Solutions for stimulus funds)
The information provided was researched from: http://www.recovery.gov/?q=content/program-plan&program_id=7631