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Purpose:
The Expanding Access Computer Science High School Courses grant opportunity will expand high school students' access to high-quality, standards-based computer science education. A second goal is to expand high school students' opportunities to participate in high-quality advanced computer science courses. To achieve these goals, the grant program provides funding directly to local education agencies (LEAs) to develop and implement one or more new high-quality computer science education courses aligned with the New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Computer Science (NJSLS-CS). The new courses developed must be available for student enrollment in the 2024-2025 academic year.
Category 1: LEAs with one or more high schools that currently teach a computer science course may apply for up to $40,000 to develop and implement one or more new advanced computer science courses that meet one of the following criteria:
1. The course is a College Board approved Advanced Placement Computer Science A course.
2. The course is a College Board approved Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles course.
3. The course is a course in Cybersecurity or Artificial Intelligence (AI).
4. The course is eligible for credit in computer science through an articulation agreement with a postsecondary institution.
Category 2: LEAs with one or more high schools that do not currently teach a computer science course may apply for up to $15,000 to develop and implement one or more new introductory computer science courses, building the high school's capacity to offer advanced computer science courses in subsequent years.
This grant program is a limited-competitive grant program open to New Jersey Local Education Agencies (LEAs) as described above.
This is a 9 month grant program. Up to 20 awards per category will be made, with at least 6 awards per category made on a regional basis.
Based on the availability of FY24 state appropriations this 9 month grant program will begin June 1, 2024 and end on February 28, 2025.
Eligible Agencies: NJ LEAs
Grant Type: Competitive
Number of Award(s) Anticipated: 40
Application Due Date: 2/29/2024
Total Amount Available: $1,100,000