Positive Learning Climates KnowledgeBase

Grants.gov

Grants.gov allows organizations to find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all federal grant-making agencies. Grants.gov is the single access point for programs offered by federal grant-making agencies. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is the managing agency for this e-gov initiative from the U.S. government.

Office of Management and Budget Circulars

This document provides links to four Office of Management and Budget (OMB) circulars with instructions pertaining to federal grant awards.

Education on the Web - Technical Assistance Organizations

This Education on the Web category provides links to private and government technical assistance providers at the national, state, and local levels.

Grants to Improve the Mental Health of Children

This document offers links to relevant sections of Public Law 107-110, which addresses mental health services for children.

Office of Safe and Healthy Schools

This link is to the U.S. Department of Education's website for the Office of Safe and Healthy Schools.

Safe Schools Healthy Students

As noted at its website, "the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative is a grant program designed to develop real-world knowledge about what works best to reduce school violence."

School Climate and Discipline

This link to the U.S. Department of Education website provides resources addressing school climate and discipline. As noted on the website, "The guidance package is a resource resulting from a collaborative project—the Supportive School Discipline Initiative (SSDI)—between ED and DOJ. The SSDI, launched in 2011, addresses the school-to-prison pipeline and the disciplinary policies and practices that can push students out of school and into the justice system. The initiative aims to support instead school discipline practices that foster safe, inclusive and positive learning environments while keeping students in school."

The Department of Education news releases explains that the resource package consists of four components:

• "the Dear Colleague guidance letter on civil rights and discipline, prepared in conjunction with DOJ, describes how schools can meet their legal obligations under federal law to administer student discipline without discriminating against students on the basis of race, color or national origin;
• the Guiding Principles document draws from emerging research and best practices to describe three key principles and related action steps that can help guide state and local efforts to improve school climate and school discipline;
• the Directory of Federal School Climate and Discipline Resources indexes the extensive federal technical assistance and other resources related to school discipline and climate available to schools and districts; and
• the Compendium of School Discipline Laws and Regulations, an online catalogue of the laws and regulations related to school discipline in each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, compares laws across states and jurisdictions."