Columbia Community Unit School District 4

Columbia Community Unit School District 4 is a non-profit organization that provides educational services to students. Through various federal grants, primarily from the Illinois State Board of Education, the school district receives funding to serve students with disabilities, address the needs of students at risk of academic failure, improve instruction and academic achievement, retain highly qualified teachers, and provide meals to students.

Specifically, Columbia Community Unit School District 4 has been awarded federal grants to reimburse costs for housing students with disabilities in residential facilities, employ instructional staff, purchase materials and equipment, and provide professional development for teachers to assist struggling students and those with disabilities. Additional federal grants have focused on early childhood special education, recruiting and retaining highly qualified teachers, implementing academic interventions in areas like reading and literacy, preventing and responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, and serving healthy meals to children in low-income areas during the summer through the Summer Food Service Program. Across all of these grant awards spanning over a decade, the school district has served as a subrecipient partner below the Illinois State Board of Education to ultimately provide educational services and resources to its students.