And even then there is often room for interpretation. That said, I believe the following will help shed light on our initiative. The funds are meant to support a program, however, or work toward developing a child care program, rather than to provide child care scholarships to individual students. There are a number of criteria. Grant funds under this section may be used to provide before and after school services to the extent necessary to enable low-income students enrolled at the institution of higher education to pursue postsecondary education.
Renewal means the ability for the whole four year grant to be renewed.
This would be available only for four years if the grant cannot be renewed. This is how the law is presently written, but we should have plenty of time to try to change this before the next HEA reauthorization. While the emphasis is on providing support to low income student parents, the law explicitly allows others to be served by the facility. But the facility MUST serve low income students. As noted above, the award would be for each year for four years.