If current 21st CCLC programs don 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, each having at least 70 percent free or reduced lunch participation. Can this new school be included in the application? Yes. This new school can be included in the application. Please explain the situation clearly in the application narrative and use the free and reduced-lunch rates found on DataQuest that pertain to the two schools from which students will be drawn. These rate
