Federal Funding Spotlight on Education Programs: 📚 🍎 Teacher Appreciation Week Edition

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To mark Teacher Appreciation Week, our latest edition of Federal Funding Spotlight focuses on opportunities in the field of education, including programs that…

  • award competitive grants to advance literacy skills;
  • build and enhance the ability of schools nationwide to identify gifted and talented students and meet their special educational needs;
  • support efforts to revitalize and maintain Native languages and expand the use of language immersion programs in its schools;
  • provide grants for emergency repairs and modernization of school facilities to certain local educational agencies.

For a complete, searchable list of federal funding opportunities, go to the Grants.gov Search tab.

Federal Funding Spotlight

Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Comprehensive Literacy State Development (CLSD) Program

  • Department of Education
  • 📌 Current Closing Date for Applications: June 3, 2019
  • The Comprehensive Literacy State Development (CLSD) program awards competitive grants to advance literacy skills, through the use of evidence-based practices, activities and interventions, including pre-literacy skills, reading, and writing, for children from birth through grade 12, with an emphasis on disadvantaged children, including children living in poverty, English learners, and children with disabilities.

 

Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education (Javits) Program

  • Department of Education
  • 📌 Current Closing Date for Applications: June 3, 2019
  • The Javits program supports evidence-based [1] research, demonstration projects, innovative strategies, and similar activities designed to build and enhance the ability of elementary schools and secondary schools nationwide to identify gifted and talented students and meet their special educational needs.

 

BIE Native Language Immersion Grants-BIE Funded Schools Only Solicitation

  • Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs
  • 📌 Current Closing Date for Applications: June 5, 2019
  • The Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) supports efforts to revitalize and maintain Native languages and expand the use of language immersion programs in its schools.  The BIE is providing $2,000,000 for grants to BIE-funded schools to expand existing language immersion programs or create new programs that will lead to Native language oral proficiency.

 

Media Education Program (MEP)

  • Department of State, U.S. Mission to Georgia
  • 📌 Current Closing Date for Applications: May 30, 2019
  • The Public Affairs Section (PAS) of the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi is pleased to announce an open competition for a Media Educational Program (MEP). U.S. media and non-profit/non-governmental organizations may submit proposals to manage a year-long project to support the professional development of freshly-graduated young Georgian journalists, newcomers to the digital journalism craft who are committed to professional development and are working for multi-platform operated media organizations – be they broadcasters, newspapers or news-agencies.

 

Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE): Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) Program

  • Department of Education
  • 📌 Current Closing Date for Applications: May 31, 2019
  • The CCAMPIS Program supports the participation of low-income parents in postsecondary education through the provision of campus-based child care services.

 

Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Impact Aid Discretionary Construction Grant Program

  • Department of Education
  • 📌 Current Closing Date for Applications: June 11, 2019 
  • The Impact Aid Discretionary Construction Grant Program provides grants for emergency repairs and modernization of school facilities to certain local educational agencies (LEAs) that receive Impact Aid formula funds.