The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) is providing preliminary guidance to local education agencies (LEAs) with Career and Technical Education (CTE) area career centers (here after referred to as LEAs) regarding requirements associated with the Missouri Area Career Center Opportunity (MACCO) Grant, funded by the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA).
Donor Name: Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE)
State: Missouri
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/28/2022
Size of the Grant: $400,000
Details:
The grant’s purpose is to enhance CTE capacity by providing greater opportunities for students participating and engaging in CTE, while also updating and modernizing the facilities, infrastructure, and necessary equipment of CTE area career centers. LEAs shall use grant funds to create new high-demand and emerging programs, enhance current facilities by improving infrastructure, upgrade industry relevant equipment, and to renovate and/or construct facilities. Expenses must be used to enhance or extend area career centers’ capacities to increase students’ knowledge and skills needed to gain employment in current or emerging fields, continuing their education, or retraining for new business and industry opportunities.
Assist the 57 Missouri Career and Technical Education area career centers in creating new high-demand and emerging programs, improve infrastructure of current facilities, upgrade equipment, and renovate and/or construct facilities.
Example Expenses
Eligibility Criteria
Missouri’s 57 CTE area career centers are eligible to apply for these grant funds. The maximum state award for each grant is $400,000, which is 75% of the total LEA expenditure. LEAs are required to match the State’s 75%grant award with a local 25% match. In the case of a maximum state award of $400,000, the LEA match would be approximates $133,333 (for a project total of approximately %533,333). The grant program will be based on the following criteria:
- Creating new high-demand and emerging programs, (e.g., geo-spatial, transportation and supply chain logistics, microprocessor research and development, etc.).
- New construction of area career center buildings or renovation/addition to existing CTE area career centers
- Updating and expanding current CTE programs.
Improving infrastructure for safety and equipment needs - Updating equipment and instructional technology, (e.g., simulators, bandwidth, flexible instructional devices, etc.
For more information, visit Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE).
