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_ 173 Item Details($) Appropriations($) ITEM 124. First Year Second Year First Year Second Year FY2025 FY2026 FY2025 FY2026 served, number of educators, and number of families impacted. P. Out of this appropriation, $500,000 the first year and $500,000 the second year from the general fund is provided for the Achievable Dream partnership with Newport News School Division. Q. Out of this appropriation, $2,850,000 the first year and $2,850,000 the second year from the general fund is provided for grants for teacher residency partnerships between university teacher preparation programs and the Petersburg, Norfolk, and Richmond City school divisions and any other university teacher preparation programs and hard-to-staff school divisions to help improve new teacher training and retention for hard-to-staff schools. The grants will support a site-specific residency model program for preparation, planning, development and implementation, including possible stipends in the program to attract qualified candidates and mentors. Applications must be submitted to the Department of Education by August 1 each year. 1. Of this amount, $1,100,000 the first year and $1,100,000 the second year is provided for Virginia Commonwealth University to continue and expand a program to support residents in partnership with the Richmond Teacher Residency program. Virginia Commonwealth University shall include this program in its annual report to the Department of Education, pursuant to paragraph Q.2. of this Item. 2. Partner school divisions shall provide at least one-third of the cost of each program and shall provide data requested by the university partner in order to evaluate program effectiveness by the mutually agreed upon timelines. Each university partner shall report annually, no later than June 30, to the Department of Education on available outcome measures, including student performance indicators, as well as additional data needs requested by the Department of Education. The Department of Education shall provide, directly to the university partners, relevant longitudinal data that may be shared. The Department of Education shall consolidate all submissions from the participating university partners and school divisions and submit such consolidated annual report to the Chairs of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance and Appropriations Committees no later than November 1 each year. R. Out of this appropriation, $60,300 the first year and $60,300 the second year from the general fund is provided to the Northern Neck Regional Technical Center to expand the workforce readiness education and industry based skills and certification development efforts supporting that region in the state. These funds support the Center's programs that serve high school students from the surrounding counties of Essex, Lancaster, Northumberland, Rappahannock, Westmoreland and Colonial Beach. S. Out of this appropriation, $1,250,000 the first year and $1,250,000 the second year from the general fund is provided to the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation. 1. Of this amount, $250,000 the first year and $250,000 the second year is provided for general operations of the Foundation's grant program to strengthen the capacity of local communities to promote school readiness for young children through innovative regional partnerships. 2. Of this amount, $1,000,000 the first year and $1,000,000 the second year is provided to operate a scholarship program to increase the skills of Virginia's early education workforce. T. This appropriation includes $500,000 the first year and $500,000 the second year from the general fund to support ten competitive grants, not to exceed $50,000 each, for planning the implementation of systemic Elementary, Middle, and/or High School Program Innovation by either individual school divisions or consortia of school divisions or implementing a plan for public pre-kindergarten through Grade 12 School Program Innovation previously approved by the Department of Education. The local applicant(s) selected to conduct this systemic approach to school reform, in consultation with the Department of Education, will develop and plan or implement innovative approaches to engage and to motivate students through personalized learning and instruction leading to demonstrated mastery of content, as well as skills development of career readiness. Essential elements of school innovation include: (1) student centered learning, with