Kid with Backpack - Educational Stability Grant

  • The TSD Educational Stability Grant is a 3-year grant awarded to Thompson School District in 2019.

    The intent of the Educational Stability Grant Program is to provide academic and social-emotional services and supports to highly mobile students. The purpose of this funding opportunity is to remove educational barriers and support educational stability.  The emphasis is on improving school attendance, reducing behavioral and discipline incidents, increasing grade-level promotion, reducing dropout rate, and increasing graduation and completion rates.

     

    Schools Served

    The grant serves six schools/programs identified through a data process that looked at percent of McKinney-Vento students, school mobility rates, and chronic absenteeism rates.

    Ferguson High School

    Conrad Ball Middle School

    Mary Blair Elementary School

    B.F. Kitchen Elementary School

    Big Thompson Elementary School

    Thompson Integrated Early Childhood

     

    Goal of the Program

    To improve educational experiences and outcomes for the following student populations that are negatively affected by high mobility:

    - Foster Care (or out-of-home placement)

    - Homeless/Unaccompanied homeless youth

    - Migrant