Hillsborough County Public Schools Student Services and Federal Programs
Action Item

DATE: Tuesday, September 26, 2006
TO: School Board Members
FROM: MaryEllen Elia, Superintendent

SUBJECT / RECOMMENDATIONS

Approve Partnership Agreement between MORE Health Inc. and the School District of Hillsborough County in Conjunction with STEPS to a Healthier Hillsborough Grant Initiative (Student Services & Federal Programs Division)

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This Partnership Agreement is in effect September 27, 2006, through September 21, 2007. The STEPS to a Healthier Hillsborough is a grant initiative designed to address the issues of asthma, diabetes, obesity, nutrition, physical activity, and tobacco with under-served populations. Submitted through the Hillsborough County Health Department, it is highly collaborative and provides the school system with the opportunity to support intervention activities in fifty six schools in high poverty areas (see Attachment D). MORE Health Inc. will provide nutrition education to third, seventh and tenth graders in the STEPS intervention area schools.

ANNUAL DISTRICT GOAL(S) AND CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR(S)

Goal 5 – The District will eliminate the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) achievement gap by a minimum of 10 percentage points as reported by No Child Left Behind.

FINANCIAL IMPACT (Budgeted: Yes)

$45,000 - The source of these funds is from the STEPS to a Healthier Hillsborough Grant.

EVALUATION

Evaluations on the subcontractors are done annually. The evaluation for the MORE Health Inc. will be completed by October 2007. MORE Health will provide the list of schools for which they provided nutrition education, number of students they reached, dates the classes were held and lesson evaluation completed by the classroom teacher.

SUBMITTED BY: Nelson Luis, General Director, Student Services & Federal Programs

Gwendolyn L. Luney
Assistant Superintendent, Student Services & Federal Programs
(813) 272-4879
Gretchen Saunders
Chief Business Officer
(813) 272-4270
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