Texas Border Business
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) announced that Vanguard Academy Charter Schools received a School Climate Transformation Grant from the U.S. Department of Education. Vanguard Academy Charter Schools was awarded $739,887 for a period of five years, which will total $3,699,435.
The School Climate Transformation Grants initiative builds on evidence-based strategies to for schools to improve school climate and behavioral outcome for all students. Students who learn in positive learning environments are more likely to improve academically, participate more fully in the classroom, and develop skills that will help them be successful in school and in life.
“An environment that allows students and teachers to interact, grow and learn will set every individual up for success,” said Congressman Gonzalez. “This School Climate Transformation Grant will allow Vanguard Academy Charter Schools to give that positive learning environment to students in Pharr, San Juan, Alamo, and Edinburg. As long as I am a Congressman, I will continue to fight so every student in the 15th District of Texas has access to a top-notch education and every educator has adequate resources to give it to them.”
“Thank you to Congressman Gonzalez for his support in assisting our Charter School receive the School Climate Grant. This grant would not have been possible without the support of the City of Pharr, and Mayor Ambrosio Hernandez along with our other partners that committed to ensuring the School Climate Grant was a possibility for Vanguard Academy,” said Dr. Narciso Garcia, Superintendent of Vanguard Academy. “Additional thanks to our other partners that committed to the School Climate Grant including: the City of Edinburg, Region One Education Service Center, Doctors Hospital at Renaissance (DHR), Tropical Texas Behavioral Health, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), and Evaluation Grants & Training Institute, Inc. This grant is a game changer for the communities of Pharr, San Juan, Alamo and Edinburg as it will provide a school psychologist for Vanguard Academy Charter School along with several social workers, a Response to Intervention (RTI) specialist and several school resource officers. The Vanguard Academy Board of Directors along with the Charter School are grateful for the blessing this grant will provide the children, teachers, and staff.”
The purpose of the School Climate Transformation Grant Program–Local Educational Agency Grants (SCTG- LEA) provides competitive grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) to develop, enhance, or expand systems of support for, and technical assistance to, schools implementing a multi-tiered system of support, for improving school climate.
For more information on the SCTG-LEA is available here.
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