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Education State Grants for Innovative Programs

This program is a very flexible block grant that provides grants to States and school districts for a broad array of projects supporting reform and improvement of elementary and secondary education.

Rating

What This Rating Means

NOT PERFORMING
Results Not Demonstrated

A rating of Results Not Demonstrated (RND) indicates that a program has not been able to develop acceptable performance goals or collect data to determine whether it is performing.
  • Because this program gives States and school districts broad flexibility to fund virtually any K-12 activity, it is duplicative of other Federal, State, and local education programs. It is also not well targeted to meet the needs of children in high-need schools.
  • It is difficult to evaluate the program's performance because funds may be used for a long list of activities. In addition, because most districts that receive funds also receive funds for other Department formula-grant programs, it is difficult to separate the program's effects from those of other programs. As a result, the program does not have strong performance measures.
  • The Department has begun conducting site visits to assess whether funds are used for effective local activities.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Developing additional, meaningful performance measures for the program, collecting performance information, and setting targets for the measures.
  • Continuing formal monitoring visits to States, including both on-site and "virtual" visits, to ensure that the program is funding effective local programs.
  • Establishing baseline data and setting targets for the program's efficiency measures.

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