Correction: This article briefly & incorrectly listed the due date for the RFP as being extended until April 15. The due date did not change from April 1. The date of announcement of grant awardees has been extended to April 15, from its original date of April 1.

Request for Proposals

The State Education Resource Center (SERC) is seeking competitive proposals from qualified and interested organizations to create an evidence/research-based Substance Misuse Prevention Guiding Curriculum with a focus on opioids to support school districts serving students K-12, for a program funded by the CT Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS): “Transforming Approach to Opioid Prevention: Developing Systemic Change in Schools.” This RFP also includes the development of a Self-Assessment for districts to use and a resource guide of best practices in substance misuse focused on opioid prevention that is inclusive of the needs of schools, students, families and communities.

Update: Questions and Answers to this RFP are now available. Download RFP Questions and Answers.

All responses to this solicitation were due by April 14, 2019, at 4:00 p.m.

The award announcement will be made on April 15 2019, by 4:00p.m.

For full instructions: Download the RFP

Contact:

Paquita Jarman-Smith
100 Roscommon Drive, Suite 110
Middletown, CT 06457
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Thanks in large part to the advocacy and support of our patrons and partners, the State Education Resource Center is excited to announce it will reopen the SERC Library! Stay tuned for an announcement of the reopening date.

The Library closed on June 29, 2018, after nearly 50 years in operation, due to unprecedented fiscal challenges. SERC is grateful to the Connecticut State Department of Education and Commissioner Dianna R. Wentzell, and to CSDE Special Education Division Director Bryan Klimkiewicz, for committing resources to resume this unique service to the educators, students, and families of Connecticut.

The SERC Library is Connecticut’s only statewide public educational library of its kind, established in 1969 to provide research, reference, and resources to support positive educational and life outcomes for all students. Its general and special education collection includes tests, instructional materials, in-service education materials, assistive technology devices, journals, a family collection, and more.

The SERC Library is Connecticut’s only statewide public educational library of its kind, established in 1969 to provide research, reference, and resources to support positive educational and life outcomes for all students. Its general and special education collection includes tests, instructional materials, in-service education materials, assistive technology devices, journals, a family collection, and more.

All of the Library’s materials are funded entirely by state and federal education dollars allocated to the State of Connecticut. The reopening will restore public access to the temporary Library location in Middletown and to the Library’s extensive online catalog and journal databases.

SERC graciously thanks everyone who has demonstrated support of the SERC Library and for your commitment to educational equity and excellence for all.

Final week to submit on-time 2019-20 school choice application, Upcoming application assistance sessions and events (HARTFORD, CT) – The Connecticut State Department of Education’s Regional School Choice Office (RSCO) would like to remind parents, grandparents and guardians of children entering prekindergarten through grade 12 that the final week to submit an on-time school choice application for the 2019-20 academic year is next week.

Application assistance on the school choice Hartford district and RSCO magnet school and open choice application is available from 9:00 am to 8:00pm at the Hartford Public Library, 500 Main Street, on:

• Tuesday, February 26
• Wednesday, February 27
• Thursday, February 28

More information is available on the State Department of Education website.