SSI Community Partnerships C5 Technical Assistance Grant

The Texas Education Agency (TEA) offers the SSI Community Partnerships C5 Technical Assistance grant, aimed at supporting local educational agencies (LEAs) in improving student performance. This initiative focuses on schools in high-need areas, providing coaching and coordinated support to enhance educational engagement. By fostering partnerships with families and community organizations, the program seeks to build strong, effective schools and ensure access to quality educational and social services for all students.

The Texas Education Agency (TEA), as the pass-through entity, is the grantee from the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) and TEA awards subgrants to non-federal entities such as local educational agencies (LEAs), including school districts, charter schools, and education service centers, and to a lesser degree institutions of higher education (IHEs), and nonprofit organizations (NPOs) who are the agency’s subgrantees.
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) shall award grants to Education Service Centers (ESCs) to provide coaching and coordinated technical support to school systems awarded the Student Success Initiative (SSI)/Community Partnerships grant. The SSI Community Partnership grant is awarded to school systems with high percentages of students who do not perform satisfactorily on relevant state assessments, and that serve the most struggling neighborhoods, as determined by the Commissioner, to implement a comprehensive support program that increases the number of students performing on grade level by leveraging academic, community, and governmental supports. This initiative provides school systems guidance to create great schools in supported and supportive communities. It aims to build community strength by involving families and community partners in educational engagement planning and decisions and to provide families with effective schools and access to high quality coordinated programs for social services, health, and academic support.