Grants and Contracts Details
Description
Abstract
The Evaluation Plan will be provided to the Prichard Committee as part of a grant proposal for a Full
Service Community Schools grant through the US Department of Education which provides support for
the planning, implementation, and operation of full-service community schools that improve the
coordination, integration, accessibility, and effectiveness of services for children and families, particularly
for children attending high-poverty schools. University of Kentucky, in partnership with KYSTATS, will
serve in an external, independent evaluation capacity. The project evaluation is designed to support
and improve project implementation, document accountability for project and program
investments, and contribute to the body of knowledge on developing, scaling-up, and sustaining
effective full-service community schools. At a minimum, the evaluation team will: Provide an
annual progress report that contains findings from annual evaluation activities; use formative
evaluation activities to enact quality assurance and continuous quality improvement activities
designed to refine and improve project investments; collect and report on key performance
indicators (KPIs) that reflect shorter- and longer-term project and population results including
student outcomes (e.g., student chronic absenteeism rates; student discipline rates, including
suspensions and expulsions; graduation rates;); family outcomes (e.g., family stability or
resiliency; family attendance at community or educational events; family communication with
educators); school outcomes (e.g., school climate information; provision of integrated student
supports and stakeholder services; expanded and enriched learning time and opportunities;
number, qualifications, and retention of school staff, including the number and percentage of
fully certified teachers, disaggregated by race and ethnicity, rates of teacher turnover, and teacher
experience; changes in school spending information; collaborative leadership and practice
strategies); and community outcomes (e.g., family and community engagement efforts and
impact; regularly convening or engaging all initiative-level partners; organizing school personnel
and community partners into working teams focused on specific issues identified in the needs
and assets assessment); and project quality assurance measures (e.g., regularly assessing
program quality and progress through individual student data, participant feedback, and
aggregate outcomes to develop strategies for improvement); make results of the evaluation
publicly available through public evaluation reports, research and evaluation journal and
conference publications, white papers, presentations and webinars, and other strategies.
Status | Active |
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Effective start/end date | 1/1/23 → 12/31/27 |
Funding
- Prichard Committee: $3,283,392.00
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