Grants

TIP Grant (1-Vision)

Bryan ISD Trustees approved participation in the Technology Immersion Pilot (TIP) Grant Program. The grant allows the District to pilot a 1 to 1 laptop initiative for SFA students. This pilot enables the district to investigate the impact of three different technology integration models on student achievement. Jane Long Middle School received a $865,000 TARGET grant to provide mobile laptop carts to improve writing across the curriculum. These carts will be available for teachers to create laptop labs within their classrooms. The district will place an additional 164 computers in classrooms at Sam Rayburn. This provides the district the opportunity to compare the impact of these three different models (dispersed, mobile labs, and immersed).

TARGET 2 Grant (Write in the Middle)

The TARGET Grants (Technology Applications Readiness Grants for Empowering Texas) focus on serving high need students at the local level as part of the "No Child Left Behind Act of 2001".

Write In the Middle, one of two TARGET grants currently in place Bryan ISD, focuses on writing instruction across the core curriculum areas in grades three through eight. Technology is used to support writing instruction based on identified needs. Teachers receive training in the New Jersey Writing Project. Technology is blended with writing concepts to improve student academic achievement and technology literacy. Participating campuses receive mobile laptop carts to increase student access to technology. Teachers who attend staff development receive laptops to assist them in increasing their ability to use computers instructionally.

Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund

In May, 1995, Governor George W. Bush signed into law HB 2128 which created the Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund (TIF). The fund is governed by a nine-member board of directors that is charged with disbursing up to $150 million per year through loans and a formal grant program.

TIFB's specific charge is to help develop the telecommunications infrastructure that connects certain public entities in Texas - public schools, public libraries, two- and four-year colleges and universities, and the public health delivery system - to Texas' emerging statewide telecommunications network.