§15113 Reaching up scholarship program

Summary

The Secretary can give competitive grants to colleges, state agencies, or partnerships of those to run scholarship programs that give education vouchers to direct support workers who help people with developmental disabilities. Grants will pay up to 80 percent of the voucher costs; the grantee must pay the rest. To get a grant, an applicant must apply and explain how it will pick voucher recipients, how many people will get vouchers, and how it will pay the non‑Federal share. Priority goes to programs that serve workers who are helping people with developmental disabilities while they attend postsecondary school, where each worker proves they worked 250 hours in the past 90 days, vouchers are no more than $2,000 per year, and the applicant promises to cover the non‑Federal share and follow any other rules the Secretary sets.