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Council member inquires about Learn to Work program funding for Urban Dove Team Charter School
5:57:39
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Council Member Rita Joseph questions Jai Nanda about the Learn to Work program funding for Urban Dove Team Charter School. They discuss the timing of the next RFP and the school's funding request to the city council.
- Urban Dove Team Charter School requested $1 million from the city council to serve all four schools in their network.
- The next Learn to Work RFP will be for the 2026-2027 school year, leaving the school without resources for the next school year.
- The school's full Learn to Work grant would be about $1.4 million, but they are requesting a reduced amount of $1 million.
Rita Joseph
5:57:39
So you you said that DOE has communicated that you'll receive Learn to Work funding in the next RFP, but that won't be until next year.
5:57:47
There's no RFP this year.
5:57:49
Is that correct?
Jai Nanda
5:57:50
That's what we were told.
5:57:51
The next RFP will be for the twenty six, twenty seven year leaving us without the resources next school year.
Rita Joseph
5:57:56
Correct.
5:57:56
So we
Jai Nanda
5:57:56
haven't even seen the RFP at all but that's what we were told.
Rita Joseph
5:58:00
They're still cooking it.
5:58:02
What's the ask for you came to the council, what's the ask?
Jai Nanda
5:58:07
We did.
5:58:08
So if we were in the Learn to Work program, grants are approximately 350,000 per school.
5:58:13
So our grant would be about 1,400,000.0.
5:58:15
We put in a request to the city council for $1,000,000 to serve all four schools in our network.
5:58:20
So we're not even asking for the full amount of Learn to Work.
5:58:23
We think it's a reasonable amount to provide thousand students that we have with the services Learn to Work would provide.