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The Department of Federal Programs and Grants works to ensure federal compliance with all fiscal and programmatic components of grants awarded to Memphis City Schools. The department establishes and maintains practices necessary to ensure that all district spending remains compliant. The fiscal unit of this department works diligently to track all grant expenditures and make certain that accounting principles are accurately applied in accordance with federal standards and guidelines outlined in OMB Circulars A-87 and A-133.

This department manages and monitors spending for the following state and federal programs and grants:

• Advanced Placement Grant
• Early Childhood Education Pilot
• Emergency Immigrant Education
• ESL Civic Incentive Grant
• Even Start - Parents and Children Learning Together
• Family Resource Center
• Foreign Language Assistance Program
• Gear-Up Memphis (AVID)
• Homeless Children &  Youth
• LEAP
• Partners in Literacy
• Primetime
• Primetime III - 21st Century Community Learning Centers
• Reading First Round I
• Reading First Round II
• Safe Schools Act 2008
• Smaller Learning Communities
• Striving Readers
• Title I Part A 08.01
• Title II Part A - Teacher and Principal Training and Recruiting 08.01
• Title II Part D - Enhancing Education Through Technology 08.01
• Title III, Part A - English Language Acquisition 08.01
• Title IV, Part A - Safe and Drug Free Schools 08.01
• Title V Part A - Innovative Programs 08.01
• Voluntary Pre-K

For information about funding for Memphis City Schools’ federal programs and grants, call 416-4250.