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Spanish Language Fact Sheet — Carrera a la Cima



Financiamiento mediante la Ley Estadounidense de Recuperación y Reinversión (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act):
$4.35 mil millones

Adjudicatarios:
Los Estados, el Distrito de Columbia y Puerto Rico.

Tipo de subvención:
Por concurso

Para mayores informes:
www.ed.govhttps://www2.ed.gov/programs/racetothetop

Finalidad:

El Fondo Carrera a la Cima de $4.35 mil millones constituye la mayor inversión federal por concurso de la historia de la reforma educativa. Premiará a los estados por sus logros en el pasado y creará incentivos para mejoras en el futuro, y retará a los estados a crear estrategias integrales para abordar los cuatro aspectos centrales de la reforma que impulsarán mejoras en las escuelas:

  • Adopción de la normativa y las evaluaciones internacionales que preparan a los estudiantes para triunfar en la universidad y el ámbito laboral;
  • Captación, actualización, retención y premiación de maestros y directores efectivos, especialmente, donde se necesitan más;
  • Elaboración de sistemas de datos que miden la eficacia de los estudiantes e indican a los maestros y directores cómo pueden mejorar la instrucción; y
  • Reversión de la situación de las escuelas de rendimiento más bajo.

Las adjudicaciones en la Carrera a la Cima se destinarán a los Estados que lideran con planes ambiciosos y, al mismo tiempo alcanzables, para implantar una reforma educativa coherente, contundente y completa en estos aspectos. Estos Estados ayudarán a innovar con reformas efectivas y darán el ejemplo para los Estados y los distritos escolares locales de todo el país.

Calendario de solicitudes y adjudicaciones:

El Departamento realizará dos vueltas del concurso. El plazo para las solicitudes de la primera vuelta vencerá el 19 de enero de 2010. Los revisores evaluarán las solicitudes y el Departamento dará a conocer los adjudicatarios de la primera vuelta de financiamiento para abril de 2010. El plazo para las solicitudes de la segunda vuelta vencerá el 1 de junio de 2010, y se darán a conocer todos los adjudicatarios para septiembre de 2010. Los Estados que presentan solicitud para la primera vuelta pero que no resultan adjudicatarios podrán volver a presentar solicitud en la segunda vuelta (junto con los Estados que presentan solicitud por primera vez en la segunda vuelta). Los adjudicatarios de la primera vuelta reciben subvenciones completas por lo cual no podrán solicitar financiamiento adicional en la segunda vuelta.

El Departamento planea realizar otro concurso de $350 millones en la Carrera a la Cima que convocará posteriormente.

Fact Sheet



FY 2009 Funding:
$269 million

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act:
$650 million

Grantees:
States, which make subgrants
to school districts

Type of Grant:
Formula to States, and
formula or competitive
subgrants to school districts

Purpose:

The primary goal of the Ed Tech Grants program is to improve student
academic achievement through the use of technology in schools. It is
also designed to help ensure that every student is technologically literate
by the end of eighth grade and to encourage the effective integration of
technology with teacher training and curriculum development.

The ARRA and regular FY 2009 grants provide an unprecedented
opportunity for states, districts, and schools to use innovative strategies to
enhance instruction, facilitate teaching and learning, and improve student
achievement. They also will enable districts to acquire new and emerging
technologies, create new, state-of-the- art learning environments, and
offer new training and more support for teachers so that students acquire
the technological skills they will need to compete in a global economy.

Current Program Operations:

Under the Ed Tech program, the U.S. Department of Education provides
grants to states following a formula. States may retain up to 5 percent of
their allocations for state-level activities, and must award at least one-half
of the remainder competitively to eligible districts. A state may elect to
award up to 100 percent of the subgrant funds on a competitive basis.

The Department strongly encourages States to award all of the funds
competitively. Larger, competitive grants potentially will have a greater
impact than smaller formula grants awarded across all of a state’s
districts.

Enhancing Education through Technology (Ed-Tech) State Program

The primary goal of this program is to improve student achievement through the use of technology in elementary and secondary schools. Additional goals include:

  • helping all students become technologically literate by the end of the eighth grade, and
  • establishing innovative, research-based instructional methods that can be widely implemented through the integration of technology with both teacher training and curriculum development.

Types of Projects

Local activities include the support of continuing, sustained professional development programs and public-private partnerships. Activities also include:

  • the use of new or existing technologies to improve academic achievement;
  • the acquisition of curricula that integrate technology and are designed to meet challenging state academic standards;
  • the use of technology to increase parent involvement in schools; and
  • the use of technology to collect, manage, and analyze data to enhance teaching and school improvement.

 

Additional Information

Under the Ed-Tech program, the U.S. Department of Education provides grants to State educational agencies (SEAs) on the basis of their proportionate share of funding under Part A of Title I.

States may retain up to 5 percent of their allocations for State-level activities, and must distribute one-half of the remainder by formula to eligible local educational agencies and the other one-half competitively to eligible local entities.

In the Department’s fiscal year (FY) 2006 appropriations bill, Congress also included language overriding the statutory provision that SEAs use 50 percent of the amount available for grants to local education agencies (LEAs) for formula awards and 50 percent for competitive awards. The FY 2006 language provides SEAs with the flexibility to reserve up to 100 percent for competitive awards to eligible local entities.