-- Dropout prevention program, $5 million - assists schools with annual dropout rates above their state average to implement effective dropout prevention and re-entry efforts
-- Mental Health integration in schools, $5 million - funds to increase student access to high-quality mental health care by developing innovative approaches that link school systems with the local mental health system
-- Women's Educational Equity, $3 million - promotes educational equity for women and girls through via funding for local implementation of gender-equity policies and practices
-- Presidential Academies for American History and Civics, $2 million - workshops for both veteran and new teachers of American history and civics to strengthen their knowledge and preparation for teaching these subjects
-- Close-Up fellowships, $1 million - pays for economically-disadvantaged teachers and students, whose families have moved to the US within the last five years, to spend a week in Washington, DC. attending seminars on government and current events and meeting with leaders from the three branches of the federal government
-- Foundations for Learning, $1 million - support projects to help eligible children become ready for school
-- Excellence in Economic Education, $1 million - promotes economic and financial literacy among all K-12 students
Higher Education Programs:
-- Education demos for students with disabilities, $7 million - to provide assistance and professional development for faculty and administrators in colleges in order to provide students with disabilities a quality education
-- Underground Railroad Program, $2 million - supports research, exhibition, interpretation, and collection of artifacts related to the history of the Underground Railroad
-- State grants for incarcerated youth offenders, $23 million - supports vocational and academic achievement to enable effective workplace and community transition for incarcerated youth
Postsecondary Student Financial Assistance Programs:
-- Perkins Loan cancellations, $65 million - cancellation of student loans for qualified teachers in schools serving students from low-income families, of students with disabilities, or in the fields of mathematics, science, foreign languages, or bilingual education
-- Leveraging educational assistance programs, $65 million - LEAP provides need-based grants and community service work-study assistance to eligible college students
-- Robert Byrd Scholarship Program, $41 million - the only national, merit-based scholarship program funded through the Department of Education; named after Senator Robert Byrd, a Democratic member of Congress since 1953
-- Thurgood Marshall Legal Educational Opportunity, $3 million - aimed at increasing the number of students from low-income and minority backgrounds in law schools; named after the first African-American Supreme Court Justice
-- B.J. Stupak Olympic scholarships, $1 million - named after the deceased son of Democratic Congressman Bart Stupak
Vocational rehabilitation programs:
-- Teacher Quality Enhancement, $60 million - supports partnerships among teacher preparation institutions, schools of arts and sciences, and local school districts in high-need areas; supports efforts to recruit highly qualified teachers for high-need areas; helps to to improve the quality of teaching forces in high-need areas.
-- Supported employment, $30 million - facilitates competitive work in integrated work settings for individuals with the most severe disabilities for whom competitive employment has not traditionally occurred. Supported employment is a way to move people from dependence on a service delivery system to independence via competitive employment.
-- Projects with industry, $20 million - creates and expands job and career opportunities for individuals with disabilities in the competitive labor market by engaging the participation of business and industry in the rehabilitation process
-- Vocational Rehabilitation Recreational programs, $3 million
-- Migrant and seasonal farmworkers,$2 million - vocational rehabilitation (services for migrant or seasonal farmworkers with disabilities.
