The Learn and Serve America program provides service learning grants, technical assistance and training to students, teachers, school administrators and neighborhood agencies each year. Service learning is a teaching methodology by which students learn and develop through active participation in thoughtfully organized service that is based on classroom learning, and is conducted in and meets the needs of the school and/or local community.
The Bureau of Community and Student Services provides technical assistance across the Commonwealth in a variety of locations and ways, including workshops, conferences, networking meetings and inserving programming.
PDE collaborates with the Center for Schools and Communities (CSC) to deliver a wide variety of technical assistance activities at no cost to local schools and community groups.
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Announcing 2010-2011 Learn and Serve K-12: School-Based Federal Grant Request for Application (RFA)
The Department of Education is pleased to announce the availability of the Learn and Serve K-12 School-Based federal grant funding for the fiscal Year 2010-2011. The Learn and Serve America: K-12 School-Based Program is a component of the National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993 and it provides federal funds through the Pennsylvania Department of Education to public schools and community based organizations for the development and/or expansion of local service learning programs.
The purpose of this Request-For-Application is to provide school districts, charter schools, career and technology schools, intermediate units and community based organizations with an opportunity to compete for monies for a service learning project that creates a partnership between a LEA/CBO and the diverse community that it serves. The grants will be made to implement a student service learning program. All applications are due by 4:00p.m. on Wednesday, December 15, 2010 at the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 5th floor, 333 Market Street, Harrisburg, PA 17126-0333. Faxed and emailed applications will NOT be accepted.
