This edition of the K-12 Newsletter

Table of Contents

1. Filamentality

2. Distance Learning Saves Money

3. Best of Blue Web'n

4. Videoconferencing

5. GEAR UP

6. Grants

7. Keystone Conference

8. Advocates in Action

SBC Foundation Awards GEAR UP Grants
SBC Foundation recently gave $5 million in Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) awards in its 13-state region, working through the National Council for Community and Education Partnerships (NCCEP).

GEAR UP is a discretionary grant program designed to increase the number of low-income students who are prepared to enter and succeed in postsecondary education. GEAR UP provides five-year grants to States and partnerships to provide services at high-poverty middle and high schools. GEAR UP grantees serve an entire cohort of students beginning no later than the seventh grade and follow the cohort through high school. GEAR UP funds are also used to provide college scholarships to low-income students. (See also http://www.edpartnerships.org/ or http://www.sbc.com/gen/press-room?pid=4800&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=21270).

Grants awarded in California range from $50,000-$75,000 each:

• CSU Bakersfield: 2 GEAR UP awards
• CSU Fullerton: $46,253 to "GEAR UP Anaheim"
• Glendale USD: $50,000
• Grossmont College: $46,330 to "Grossmont-Cajon Valley GEAR UP"
• Grossmont-Cuyamaca CCD: $74,800 to "Grossmont-Cajon Valley GEAR UP"
• Imperial COE: $75,000 to "Imperial Valley P-16 Council"
• LAUSD: $50,000 to "Project Higher learning I and II Los Angeles"
• Madison Middle School, LAUSD: $73,700 to Madison Middle School College Prep Collaborative"
• North Hollywood High School: $50,000 to "Project STEPS"
• Project Grad LA: $75,000 to "Project GRAD Los Angeles"
• Riverside Community College: $49,348 to "Passport Plus/GEAR UP"
• Riverside Community College: $49,892 to "Passport Plus/GEAR UP"
• San Bernadino COE: $75,000 to "High Desert P-16 Council"
• SDSU: $50,000 to GEAR UP to City Heights"
• Santa Ana USD: $50,000 to "GEAR UP Santa Ana"
• Stockton USD: $50,000 to "GEAR UP Stockton"
• Regents of UC: $75,000 to "Building Rural Community-School Partnerships to Enhance a College-Going Culture"
• UC Davis: 3 grants
• UCLA: $75,000 to "Access Granted"
• UC Irvine: $74,920 to "GEAR UP Santa Ana"
• UC San Diego: 3 grants @ almost $50,000 each
• WCCUSD: 2 grants for "Cal*West GEAR UP"