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School Action Fund
School Actions are whole-school strategies districts use to increase access to high-quality schools, meet community needs, and address chronic underperformance. The School Action Fund (SAF) grant provides technical assistance, resources, and grant funds to support the planning and implementation of school actions for, and at, individual campuses to improve schools and provide parents and families with the schools and programs they want, need, and deserve. The School Action Fund supports these bold school actions:
- Restart a struggling school
- Create a new school
- Reassign students to a higher-performing school
- Redesign a whole school
For more information on transformative School Actions and School Model Playbooks, please visit the .
All school actions focus on the following key elements:
- Alignment to the Effective Schools Framework (EFS)
- Empowered School Leaders
- Implementation of High-Quality Instructional Materials (HQIM)
- Use of Research Based Instructional Strategies (RBIS)
- Strategic use of time
School Action Fund Resources
The resources below align with the core components of all school actions.
For information on the Effective Schools Framework (ESF).
For more information on School Model Playbooks.
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District Impacts
- $244 Million in direct-district grants and in-kind support
- 315 School Actions Awarded, Planned, and/or implemented
- 115 LEAs have been supported across all 20 Texas ESCs
- 144,000+ students have been supported through the School Action Fund
Testimonials from the Field
The School Action Fund grant was a transformative catalyst for our campus, enabling us to change a multiple year, low-performing rural school through a more engaging P-20 model. Through the grant process, A.B. Duncan moved from a previous F/D rated campus to a high B, where students and teachers demonstrated impressive growth.
— Shauna Lane,
Dean of Academic Affairs,
Floydada Collegiate ISD
The SAF grant has allowed our campuses to plan and implement engaging school models such as Blended Learning, College Prep, and STEM while positively impacting our students by creating equitable, high-quality school options throughout the district. Students are not the only ones who benefit from a SAF grant; these school actions also affect the campus and central office staff by increasing capacity in areas such as HQIM, Positive School Culture and Climate, individual school models, and RBIS, to name a few.
— Denise Jones
Accountability & Innovation Director,
Judson ISD
- To learn more about each school action, please review the action webinar decks linked below:
Contact Information
For additional information, contact:
Laura Hyatt
Manager, School Action Fund
Laura.Hyatt@tea.texas.gov