PROVIDENCE – Seven school districts have been awarded $347,659 in total federal funds through the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act Education for Homeless Children and Youth grant program to help support students experiencing homelessness.
Gov. Daniel J. McKee and R.I. Education Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green said the subgrants are renewable for up to three years.
The districts that received the grants had to demonstrate a developed project that helps facilitate enrollment attendance and success of students who are homeless, McKee and Infante-Green said.
The districts that received the grants and their amounts are:
- Newport – $53,145
- Middletown – $50,000
- Providence – $50,000
- Warwick – $50,000
- North Kingstown – $49,788
- Woonsocket – $49,426
- West Warwick – $45,299
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