Department of Nutrition, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
Public Health Nutr. 2012 Feb;15(2):285-90. doi: 10.1017/S1368980011001248. Epub 2011 Aug 2.
California Assembly Bill 1535 awarded $US 15 million to California public schools to promote, develop and sustain instructional school gardens through the California Instructional School Garden Program (CISGP). The present study was designed to assess the effectiveness of the CISGP at assisting schools in implementing, maintaining and sustaining an academic school garden programme, determine how schools utilized the funding they received and assess the impact of the California state budget crisis on the CISGP.
A mid-term evaluation was used to assess the degree to which schools achieved their instructional garden-related goals.
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Only schools that applied for the CIGSP grant as part of a school district and also provided a contact email and had a unique contact person were included in the study (n 3103, 80·6 %).
In general, many schools reported not achieving their predicted goals with regard to the CISGP grant. Only 39·4 % of schools reported accomplishing all of their garden-related goals. Over one-third (37·8 %) of schools reported that their school gardens were negatively affected by the California budget deficit.
The difference between predicted and actual utilization of the CISGP grants may be due to a combination of the effects of budget shortfall and insufficiency of the grant award amount.
加州议会法案 1535 向加州公立学校拨款 1500 万美元，通过加州教学植物园计划（CISGP）促进、发展和维持学校教学植物园。本研究旨在评估 CISGP 在协助学校实施、维持和持续学术植物园项目方面的有效性，确定学校如何利用所获得的资金，并评估加州州预算危机对 CISGP 的影响。
采用中期评估来评估学校在实现与教学植物园相关目标方面的程度。
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仅包括作为学区的一部分申请 CIGSP 赠款的学校，并且提供了电子邮件联系地址，并设有唯一联系人（n=3103，80.6%）。
总体而言，许多学校报告称没有实现 CISGP 赠款的预期目标。只有 39.4%的学校报告完成了所有与花园相关的目标。超过三分之一（37.8%）的学校报告说，他们的学校花园受到加州预算赤字的负面影响。
CISGP 赠款的预期和实际利用之间的差异可能是由于预算短缺和赠款金额不足的综合影响。
