Propel Schools, Inc.

Propel Charter School - Homestead, doing business as Propel Charter-Homestead, is a corporate entity operating as a non-profit organization that provides charter school educational services. Through federal grant sub-awards from the Pennsylvania Department of Education, Propel Charter-Homestead receives reimbursement funding to provide meals, snacks, and milk to students under programs such as the National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, Child and Adult Care Food Program, and the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program.

Specifically, Propel Charter-Homestead has been the sub-recipient on dozens of federal entitlement grants that reimburse approved sites for providing breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and milk to school children. Additional federal sub-grants have provided funding to reimburse Propel Charter-Homestead for meals served to children and adults under the Child and Adult Care Food Program, as well as grants to fund summer meals and snacks when school is not in session. Propel has also received targeted sub-grants aimed at providing fresh fruit and vegetable snacks to the schools in greatest need. Beyond school meals and snacks, a few sub-awards have focused more broadly on technology upgrades, school improvements, teacher development, and academic enrichment programs. Almost all awards have been federal grant sub-awards with the Pennsylvania Department of Education serving as the prime grantee that passes funding down to school districts and charter schools like Propel Charter-Homestead.