These are salaried employees, not hourly. Refer to the answer to question number three above. The requirements referenced in the answer to question three apply to both salaried and hourly employees. In the case of salaried employees the hours are maintained to arrive at a basis for distributing the employees salary. An application from an existing school-based health center that wishes to add services could not be considered as eligible for funding.
Eligible applicants are school districts.
An individual school district within a cooperative could apply for grant funding with the intention of providing services to all or some of the schools within the cooperative. TEA data does not include cooperatives in the low property wealth data. This may be the school district's superintendent or business official or other administrator. The applicant may structure this arrangement in a manner that best meets the needs of the community and makes sense within the scope of organizational structure. TDH anticipates start-up grant funding to be available on an annual basis.