§15113 Reaching up Scholarship Program

Summary

The federal government can give competitive grants to colleges, State agencies, or groups of them to run scholarship programs that give vouchers for college or other education after high school to direct support workers who help people with developmental disabilities living in different settings. Grants will pay part of the voucher cost, but the federal share cannot be more than 80 percent. To get a grant, an applicant must file an application with the information the government asks for, including how vouchers will be chosen, how many people will get them, and how much money the applicant will provide for the non-federal portion. The government will favor applications that say vouchers will go to direct support workers who are also in college or other post–high school education and who show they worked 250 hours in the past 90 days, that vouchers will be no more than $2,000 per year, that the applicant (or another non-recipient) will cover the non-federal share, and that meet any other conditions the government sets.