If a federally administered programs grant period ends May 2004, but the program is applying for a one-year no-cost extension, is it eligible to apply this year (for the same schools)?
Yes. However, California’s 21st CCLC Program grant funds may be used only to supplement existing funding; they may not be used to supplant existing funding. In this case, with the same schools, one could apply to increase the number of enrollees by 25 percent. • If current 21st CCLC programs don’t meet the absolute eligibility requirements, are they not eligible to apply at all? As stipulated in the RFA under “Application Review and Grant Award Process,” applications will be initially screened to ensure that the applicant agency is an eligible entity and that the student population to be served satisfies the absolute funding priority, as described in Section II.B, “Prioritized Eligibility for Funding.” If an application does not satisfy these and other criteria during the initial screening process at CDE, the application will not be forwarded to the Readers’ Conference for scoring. • We will be opening a new school in September 2004. All students will be drawn from two Title I schools,
