The state provides additional education funding to schools, in the form of Accountability Block Grants. The use of these funds is strictly targeted on specific state approved uses designed to improve student academic achievement. Gettysburg Area School District uses its $418,292 to fund all day kindergarten for the seventh year. These annual funds are in addition to the state's basic education funding and all federal funding. School Districts must apply each year for Accountability Block Grants. In 2009–10, the state provided $271.4 million in Accountability Block grants, with $199.5 million of it going to providing all-day kindergarten.