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Recent Grant Listing:
Public Education Redesign and Enhancement 2004 -2007

2007 Public Education Grants

Approved in FY2007

Total: $1,826,940.00

Ewa Beach Elementary School

For a Homework Center to be open for parents and students in the library after school

$5,000.00

Hawaiian Educational Council

For a delegation of Hawaii's leaders to travel to the National College of School Leadership (NCSL) in Nottingham, England to study the applicability and replicability of NCSL principles to the leadership development program in the Hawaii Department of Education

$75,000.00

Hawaiian Educational Council

For the Principals Leadership Academy of Collaborative Action for Public Education (CAPE)

$475,000.00

The New Teacher Project

For improved DOE teacher recruitment and hiring policies system-wide

$35,000.00

Teach for America

For support to send four representatives from educational partnerships in Hawaii to visit the Teach For America teacher summer training institute in Houston

$4,000.00

Teach for America

To recruit outstanding teachers to close the achievement gap in Hawaii's public schools

$750,000.00

Kamehameha Schools

For Successful Schools analysis of DOE schools

$17,940.00

UC Santa Cruz - New Teacher Center

For improved new teacher training and retention

$200,000.00

 

University of Hawaii Foundation

(Hawaii P-20 Initiative)

 

For implementation of The Hawaii P-20 Initiative Strategic Plan, specifically: 1) longitudinal data tracking; and 2) alignment of standards, curricula and assessment (secondary to post-secondary)

 

$265,000.00

 

Various Grantees

 

For individual grants of $10,000 each to 21 public elementary schools who received Na Alaka`i Ho`ona`auao Third Grade Reading Awards
(Approved in 2004; awarded in 2007)

 

$210,000.00

 

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2006 Public Education Grants

Total: $398,725.00

Assets School

For a partnership between ASSETS and a DOE school to identify and provide intervention to primary students at risk for reading failure

$10,000.00

Chaminade University

For the "Pathways to College" program for The Century Program scholars of Kapa'a High School

$3,000.00

Community Development Pacific Inc.

For the distribution of copies of 'Broken Trust' to each public high school in the state

$10,000.00

Good Beginnings Alliance

For continued support of the School Readiness Assessment

$12,000.00

Hawaii Association of Independent Schools

For strategic planning for the Ho'okako'o Corporation

$10,000.00

Hawaiian Educational Council

To prepare public school leaders in Hawaii for the task of reinventing education

$253,725.00

Various Grantees

For small grants (maximum $5,000 each) to encourage school communities to use Just For The Kids data to drive program and policy decisions

$100,000.00

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2005 Public Education Grants

Total: $1,437,003.11

Ahuimanu Elementary School

To build a new retaining wall

$3,500.00

All Kinds of Minds

For the 'Expanding the Knowledge Base Project'

$250,000.00

Good Beginnings Alliance

For a statewide communications campaign to promote the importance of Universal Pre-Kindergarten

$50,000.00

Hawaii 3R's

For the repair and maintenance of Windward Oahu Public Schools in partnership with Kaneohe Marine Corps Base of Hawaii

$150,000.00

Hawaiian Educational Council

To prepare public school leaders in Hawaii for the task of reinventing education

$350,000.00

Kaelepulu Elementary School

To purchase library shelves

$4,893.11

Kaiser Permanente
Hawaii Division

For the Reach Out and Read Program

$75,000.00

Kalaheo High School

To install seven chilled water fountains

$12,860.00

Puohala Elementary School

For the installation of a PA system

$750.00

Teach For America

To recruit outstanding teachers to close the achievement gap in Hawaii's public schools

$500,000.00

University of Hawaii Foundation

To disseminate the Navigating Change curriculum to Hawaii's schools

$40,000.00

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2004 Public Education Grants

Total: $2,454,065.52

Foundation For Excellent Schools

For the Century Program in four Windward Oahu schools

$300,000.00

Good Beginnings Alliance

To implement a statewide School Readiness Online Assessment to be adopted by the DOE

$45,000.00

Grantees to be determined

To reward teachers and schools that demonstrate significant results in transforming struggling K-3 readers into achieving readers, including $210,000 for the Nā Alaka‘i Ho‘ona‘auao Reading Leadership Awards announced on August 30, 2007

$400,000.00

Halau Ku Mana New Century Charter School

For Navigation & Marine Science equipment

$10,000.00

Hawaii 3R's

For the repair and maintenance of Windward Oahu Public Schools in partnership with Kaneohe Marine Corps Base of Hawaii

$172,034.61

Hawaii Association of Independent Schools

For the attendance of eight education professionals at the Change Leadership Group's 'Learning Lab ' at the Harvard Graduate School of Education

$20,000.00

Hawaiian Educational Council

For a facilitator to oversee the de-linking process mandated by the legislature in Act 51

$12,500.00

Hawaiian Educational Council

For training in school board leadership and governance

$10,000.00

Kailua High School

To acknowledge Ms. Winona Oato (2005 State Teacher of the Year) for her outstanding achievement

$5,000.00

Kainalu Elementary School

To install basketball backboards

$1,000.00

Kainalu Elementary School

To provide shading for the kindergarten play area

$4,805.91

Kaunakakai Elementary School

For the expansion of the Families and Classroom Teachers Program

$11,725.00

Ke Ali'i Pauahi Foundation

To improve educational outcomes for children aged 0-8 in Waimanalo and Koolauloa

$1,250,000.00

Ke Kula O Samuel M. Kamakau

For permitting and renovation costs to relocate the school to Kokokahi YWCA

$50,000.00

Maunawili Elementary School

To create a 'Parent Toolkit' at Maunawili Elementary School

$12,000.00

University of Hawaii Foundation

To implement the Measure-Up Mathematics curriculum program at Waimanalo Elementary & Intermediate School

$150,000.00

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