{"id":32369,"date":"2020-04-03T01:12:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T01:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/e-ratepaorg.local\/?p=32369"},"modified":"2020-04-07T01:13:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T01:13:04","slug":"pde-grant-for-remote-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/?p=32369","title":{"rendered":"* PDE Grant for Remote Learning *"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">April 3, 2020<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The PA Department of Education has just announced an \u201cEquity Grant\u201d to provide funding for schools to purchase computer equipment, such as laptops, tablets, and Internet hot spots; or to use towards providing instructional materials, such as paper lessons and coursework.\u00a0 The grant is initially set at $5 million from state funds, but PDE intends to allocate funding from PA\u2019s portion of the new federal CARES Act to increase the size of the fund, as soon as that funding becomes available.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Important<\/strong>: \u00a0Grant applications will become available on\u00a0<strong>Monday, April 6<\/strong>\u00a0and must be submitted through PDE\u2019s eGrants system by\u00a0<strong>Friday, April 10<\/strong>. \u00a0\u00a0This is a tight window designed to get the funds to districts as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Schools with the highest percentages of students lacking access to resources will be given priority in receiving the grants.<\/p>\n<p>At this time, this is all the information I have.\u00a0 I will send you more specifics when the grant guidelines are announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Have a great weekend, everyone.\u00a0 Stay safe and healthy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Julie<\/p>\n<p><em>p.s.\u00a0 I\u2019m extremely proud of PDE for pulling together this grant so quickly.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Julie Tritt Schell<br \/>\nPennsylvania E-rate Coordinator<br \/>\n717-730-7133 &#8211; o<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:jtschell@comcast.net\">jtschell@comcast.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-ratepaorg.local\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.e-ratepaorg.local\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1586308105164000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHPLQ-jUVddVDgU1o1Sq4NoXorLjQ\">www.e-ratepa.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=eratepenn\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-size=\"large\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 3, 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-listserve_archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}