ESMEC Eastern Shore of Maryland Educational Consortium

ESMEC Grants & Projects ESMEC Energy Trust This formal organization was established in response to the deregulation of electric power. Participants include the 9 ESMEC school boards, plus 3 community colleges and 7county governments. As a licensed broker, the Energy Trust arranges for purchases of electricity supply directly from the wholesale market, employing a combination of day-ahead market purchases with dollar-cost-averaged hedge purchases, resulting in the lowest price at an acceptable level of risk. ESOL Consortium ESMEC manages this federal grant for three school systems whose individual grant for ESOL students is below the amount permitted for direct grants. Participating school districts could not otherwise receive this funding. Eastern Shore Teacher Recruitment Project The Eastern Shore Superintendents Association (ESSA) and the Eastern Shore Association of Colleges (ESAC) is collaboratively developing a comprehensive program for attracting and retaining teachers for Eastern Shore classrooms. ESMEC provides administrative support for project development. Higher Education Grant ESMEC, in collaboration with the Towson University Center for Leadership in Education, serves as the grant administrator for a grant to assist Dorchester and Somerset counties with leadership training. Dropout Prevention Program ESMEC is administering a grant from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention through the United States Department of Justice.  This grant enables all the high schools on the Eastern Shore to provide a web-based dropout prevention program for identified at-risk students to help keep them on track to graduate.