Goals of Perkins

• Aligning CTE Programs to Market Demand
• Fostering Collaboration among stakeholders
• Strengthening the CTE Teacher pipeline
• Expanding the reach of guidance and counseling
• Promoting innovative practices

What Funding Can be Used For

• Technology, Hardware, Hands-on Materials
• CTE Curriculum, Supplemental Resources, and Software
• Digital Learning Platforms
• Staff Training and Professional Development
• Partnerships with Local Industry and Colleges
• Industry Exams and Certifications
• Work-Based Learning Programs
• Field Trips and Career Connections

Goals of Rethink K-12 Grant

• Help states rethink education and workforce development in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

What Funding Can be Used For

• Microgrants for families, so that states can ensure students have access to the necessary technology and services needed to advance their learning.
• Statewide virtual learning and course access programs, so that students will always be able to access a full range of subjects, even those not taught in the traditional or assigned setting.
• New, field-initiated models for providing remote education not yet imagined, to ensure that every child is learning and preparing for successful careers and lives.

Goals of CARES Act

• Education leaders have the flexibility to use funds from the Elementary and Secondary School Education Relief Fund (ESSER Fund) for immediate needs, such as tools and resources for distance education, ensuring student health and safety, and developing and implementing plans for the next school year.

What Funding Can be Used For

• The funding made available has very few bureaucratic strings and should focus on investing in the technology, distance learning resources, training, and long-term planning that will help education continue for both teachers and students, no matter where learning takes place.

Goals of ESSA

• Advances equity by upholding critical protections for America's disadvantaged and high-need students.
• Requires—for the first time—that all students in America be taught to high academic standards that will prepare them to succeed in college and careers.
• Ensures that vital information is provided to educators, families, students, and communities through annual statewide assessments that measure students' progress toward those high standards.
• Helps to support and grow local innovations—including evidence-based and place-based interventions developed by local leaders and educators.
• Sustains and expands this administration's historic investments in increasing access to high-quality preschool.
• Maintains an expectation that there will be accountability and action to effect positive change in our lowest-performing schools, where groups of students are not making progress, and where graduation rates are low over extended periods of time.

What Funding Can be Used For

• Expand high-quality STEM courses
• Increase access to STEM for underserved and at-risk student populations
• Support student participation in STEM nonprofit competitions
• Provide hands-on learning opportunities in STEM
• Integrate other academic subjects, including the arts, into STEM subject programs
• Create or enhance STEM specialty schools 
• Integrate classroom-based and after-school and informal STEM instruction
• Expand environmental education