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Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy (SRCL) Grant
The Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy (SRCL) grant is a federal grant aimed at improving the reading and writing skills of students. These flow-through funds will directly support Local Education Agencies (LEAs) in their literacy efforts to benefit children from birth through twelfth grade. Louisiana is one of only six states selected to benefit from the federal grant.
Louisiana’s SRCL grant will be used to fund a new program, Literacy is for Everyone (LIFE) Promise, which is modeled after the state’s highly successful K-12 Literacy Pilot Program.
LIFE Promise will be implemented in two cohorts: the first comprised of 17-21 LEAs, which will begin the program in year one; and a second group of eight to ten LEAs, which will begin the program 18 months later. LEAs will be awarded funds based on the strength of their proposed plans.
In April 2012, the Louisiana Department of Education announced the first cohort of 16 local school districts and one charter school that the agency recommended to receive sub-grants. A second round of grantees will be selected in 2013.
Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Grant Links
- Sub-Grantee Recipients
- Full Application for Grant Finalists
- Application Timeline
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Louisiana’s Grant Application
Striving Readers
Information for Professional Development Providers
Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Grant Resources
Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Grant News/Publications
- Press Release: Department Announces Recommendations for Striving Readers Grant Recipients
- Press Release: Louisiana Students to Benefit from Federal Literacy Grant
Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Grant Contacts
- Kerry Laster, Ph.D.
Executive Director
225.342.6025 - Jill Slack, Ph.D.
Director
225.342.6025 - For more information, call
877.453.2721 (toll free).
