OAR 581-017-0900: Criteria

(1) The Department will award Grants to eligible entities based on the following criteria: (a) Whether the proposed project successfully implements the strategies provided in the Immigrant/Refugee Student Success Plan ; (b) Whether the applicant authentically and consistently engages Community Voice in the proposed project; and (c) Whether the applicant demonstrates equitable distribution of Grant funds and resources in Partnership. (2) The Department may give priority to applications that: (a) Are led by Culturally Specific or Community-Based Organizations that represent Immigrant Refugee communities; (b) Demonstrate authentic and on-going Partnerships with Community-Based Organizations, Culturally Specific Organizations, school districts, public charter school, early learning hubs, educational service districts, providers of early learning services, post-secondary institutions of education, tribe(s); (c) Will help ensure geographic diversity of the Grant program by including rural communities or other underserved communities with large Immigrant Refugee student populations; or (d) Address a strategy or an objective of the Immigrant Refugee Success Pla n that requires additional support, as determined by the Department. (e) Address strategies or objectives that are common across the African American/Black Student Success Plan, Latino/a/x and Indigenous Student Success Plan and/or the American Indian/Alaska Native Student Success Plan, the LGBTQ2SIA+ Student Success Plan, the Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Student Success Plan and communities.