Department of Defense Awards $96 Million Grant to the Hawaii Department of Education for E

The Division of Protection introduced right this moment the award of a $96,000,000 grant from the Workplace of Native Protection Neighborhood Cooperation to the Hawaii Division of Schooling to switch the present Mokapu Elementary College facility with a brand new college on Marine Corps Base Hawaii.  

Upon completion, the brand new college will serve as much as 975 college students Pre-Kindergarten by way of sixth grade and handle capability and facility situation deficiencies that positioned Mokapu Elementary College because the thirty third college on the 2019 Deputy Secretary of Protection “Public Colleges on Navy Installations Precedence Listing” (Precedence Listing). 

Funding for this grant is offered beneath the Division’s Public Colleges on Navy Installations Program. In making these funds out there, the Workplace of Native Protection Neighborhood Cooperation should give precedence consideration to army installations which have colleges with essentially the most critical capability and facility situation deficiencies, as decided by the Precedence Listing.  

A multi-disciplined Federal Analysis Crew, with representatives from the Assistant Secretaries of the Air Pressure, Military, and Navy and the Workplace of Native Protection Neighborhood Cooperation, reviewed the college venture to make sure the award appropriately addresses the famous capability and facility situation deficiencies. 

In correcting the recognized facility situation and capability points at Mokapu Elementary College, this grant retains religion with service members, improves the standard of schooling for defense-connected college students, aids within the recruitment and retention of significant abilities at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, and enhances partnerships between the communities and the set up.