Grants
The school received $94,643 in federal stimulus funds. The funding was for the 2009-10 and 2010-2011 school years.
Using a $1 million technology grant of Fujitsu products and services, the Widener Partnership Charter School developed modern technology including laptop computers, plasma TVs, projectors, scanners, and a server in addition to a brand new 4,000-volume library.
In January 2012, the Pennsylvania Department of Education selected Widener Partnership Charter School for a $629,363 21st Century Community Learning Challenge Grant. The school is funded over three years. Widener Partnership was selected from among 57 schools and organizations statewide to receive a grant from a total of $64.4 million as part of the 21st Century Community Learning Challenge Grant. The grant funds a five-day-per-week extended day instruction program for WPCS students. The program will include academic instruction and cultural enrichment activities, and students will be offered dinner at the end of each program day. This federally-funded grant was established under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
The school was a recipient of a 2009 Dollar General Literacy Foundation Back to School and Youth Literacy Grant.
PECO identified Widener Partnership as one of 18 local schools to participate in its 2012 PECO Energizing Education Program (PEEP). PEEP is an environmental education program designed to teach local middle school students about the science of energy, renewable and nonrenewable energy sources, electricity generation and energy efficiency both at home and at school. Each school received $1500 in funding from PECO. In the program, students participate in a school energy audit and receive home energy audit kits. Widener Partnership school also received $2,500 in funding from PECO for an energy efficiency project.
In July 2012, Widener Partnership Charter School received a federal grant which is run by the PDE. The grant calls for the establishment and sustainability of community learning centers that provide additional educational services to students in high-poverty and low-performing schools. The grant was competitive. Applications for the grants were reviewed and scored by a panel of representatives from the educational field and professional grant writers. The school received $114,061. While 101 entities applied for the funding, only 66 were approved including eight charter schools. The funding is for the 2012-13 fiscal year.
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