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INTRODUCTION - The GearUp Program is a program designed to increase the number of low-income students who are prepared to enter and succeed in postsecondary education. GearUp provides five-year grants to States and partnerships to provide services at high-poverty middle and high schools. GearUp grantees serve an entire cohort of students beginning no later than the seventh grade and follow the cohort through high school. GearUp funds are also used to provide college scholarships to low-income students.

GearUp is unique from other initiatives. This program employs partnerships committed to serving and accelerating the academic achievement of cohorts of students through their high school graduation. GearUp partnerships supplement (not supplant) existing reform efforts, offer services that promote academic preparation and the understanding of necessary costs to attend college, provide professional development, and continuously build capacity so that projects can be sustained beyond the term of the grant.

Lawson State's Program - GearUp is a 5-year, 2.5 million dollar grant sponsored through the Department of Education and run by the Department of Educational Support Services at Lawson State Community College.

Enacted in 1998, GearUp funds partnerships with high-poverty middle schools, colleges and universities, community organizations and businesses to work with entire grade levels of students. The partnerships provide tutoring, mentoring,
information on college preparation and financial aid. The program is designed and focuses on academic preparation and scholarship.

GEAR-UP works with students starting no later in than 7th grade and continues to work with these same students until they graduate from high school.

Lawson State Community College, the awarding institution, is the overseeing body of this grant. GearUp is far reaching, for it involves Miles College; Bessemer State Technical College; and the Midfield, Fairfield and Bessemer Public School Systems. For more information, please contact Ms. Janina Nobles, Project Director or the Dean of Educational Support Services.

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