GearUp Grant

    This grant for $151, 027.00 was in the first group announced by the Federal Department of Education in 1999.  There were 185 grants under the Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GearUp).  This project was targeted in 1999 to serve the seventh grade cohort group at Roosevelt Middle School and follow those students to Field Kindley High School their freshmen through senior years.  This cohort consists of approximately 176 students. 

    The GearUp grant has four partners who have each signed a partnership agreement to provide support and services as a community.  Those partners are Coffeyville Community College, Unified School District 445, City of Coffeyville and the Coffeyville Chamber of Commerce.  Waneta Davis of the Coffeyville Community College ignited the grant process.  Mrs. Davis stated that CCC has agreed to give a scholarship to every student in the cohort who graduates on time from Field Kindley  High School and attends Coffeyville Community College.

    The GearUp grant addresses individual students' needs.  The project brings together the major factors that can effect change within the community.  Components built into the Coffeyville Community GearUp Project will bring about systematic changes that will raise the performance level of the cohort group and will impact all subsequent classes that follow them.  By improving a student's academic performance through a well taught, rigorous and challenging curriculum, a greater number of students from all socioeconomic levels will be prepared to enter post-secondary educational programs.