Welcome to the The Government Grant Portal serving Louisiana Small Business Housing Grants, Louisiana Women Business Grants, Student College Grants,Louisiana SBA Minority Grants; We offer the essential guide for Grants in all 50 states. Ready to claim your share of free Government grants home grants small business grants federal grants or any other type of grants, then here's how you can tap into the billions of free Government tax dollars available for you. Uncle Sam is literally giving away over $1.5 Trillion dollars in free grants in 2007. The great thing is as long as you are over 18 years old and are an American citizen or legal resident with a lawful and legitimate use for these grants - you are eligible. For example, you can get Louisiana Government grants for first time home buyers! Order The Grant Authority Book! These are Federal and State Government grants you can use for a variety of reasons. Government grants, by the way, have been funded by your Louisiana tax dollars. You can use Government grants to get money for school, food and clothing, your church and many other reasons. There are over 24,000 Louisiana State Government grants & National programs and 1500 Federal Government grant programs administered by 57 different Federal agencies. http://www.government-grant.biz/LA-government-grants.html http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:06:52 -1000 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:04:57 -1000 FeedForAll v2.0 (2.0.1.8) unlicensed version http://www.feedforall.com http://government-grant.biz/rss-feed-grant.jpg http://www.government-grant.biz/LA-government-grants.html Welcome to the The Government Grant Portal serving Louisiana Small Business Housing Grants 144 144 The U.S. Department of Education has awarded Louisiana a $23.9 million three-year No Child Left Behind grant to help plan, design, and create new charter schools and increase the school choices that parents have to provide their children, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings announced today. Today's grant is in addition to the $20.9 million No Child Left Behind Charter Schools Program grant Louisiana received in September to help reopen charter schools damaged by the hurricanes, create 10 new charter schools, and expand existing charter schools to accommodate displaced students. The U.S. Department of Education also has made more than $1.6 billion in funds in hurricane recovery aid available to reopen schools in the Gulf Coast region and to help educate students across the country who were displaced or impacted by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Louisiana is one of nine states receiving funding through the department's Charter Schools Program (CSP), designed to increase national understanding of the charter school model and to expand the number of charter schools available to the nation's students. In addition to providing for the start-up and operation of charter schools, these funds are also used to evaluate charter school effectiveness. The program also aids in the dissemination of information and successful practices. "Charter schools are empowering parents with new options in public education and as additional educational strategies they're helping to raise achievement in all our public schools," Spellings said. "That's why we're doing everything we can to support existing ones and help build new ones." The other states receiving grants are Kansas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, South Carolina, and New Mexico. Charter schools are growing annually between 10-12 percent. The department's program is the most prevalent source of start-up funding for charter schools, with nearly two-thirds having received CSP funds during their start-up phase. The CSP has received more than $1.7 billion from Congress since first being appropriated in 1995 and the department provides some $250 million a year to help sustain and expand charter schools across the nation. Louisiana will use its grant funds to expand local and national understanding of the charter school model using all five of Louisiana's chartering methods, including the takeover and conversion of failed public schools into independent charters. Louisiana further aims to grant more than 30 charters by the end of 2009. http://www.government-grant.biz/LA-government-grants.html 570113AA-72A7-46B8-BC33-D563011495B9 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:02:00 -1000