Information: The Mississippi Department of Education, Office of Innovative Support is seeking competitive written proposals from local school districts to develop projects which provide tutoring, supplemental instruction and enriched educational services for homeless children and youths. Projects must be linked to the achievement of the same challenging content standards and student performance standards the State of Mississippi establishes for other children or youths. The Mississippi Department of Education receives funds under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 to provide activities and services to, homeless children, including preschool children, and homeless youths that enable such children and youths to enroll, attend, and succeed in school. These activities and services may be provided on school grounds or at other facilities including sectarian property, when this is constitutionally permissible. Where services are provided through programs on school grounds, such services may also be made available to children or youths who are determined by the local educational agency to be at risk of failing in or dropping out of schools, except that priority for such services shall be given to homeless children and youths. To the maximum extent practical, services shall be provided through existing programs and mechanisms that integrate homeless individuals with non-homeless individuals. Services provided through this program are not intended to replace the regular academic programs.