Resources

Technical Assistance Webinars

Technical assistance webinars will be held on July 19, 2021 at 2pm-4pm and on July 20, 2021 at 9am-11am. Please see the Applicant Information page for the link to each webinar.  The webinar presentation will be posted here once available. 

FY 2021 IAL Pre-Application Webinar PowerPoint Presentation.

Additional Resources

• The What Works Clearinghouse Procedures and Standards Handbook (Version 4.1, October 2020) includes information concerning levels of evidence and evaluation.
• To determine whether a particular LEA is eligible for the Small, Rural School Achievement program(SRSA) or Rural and Low-Income School program (RLIS), refer to the Department’s website at https://oese.ed.gov/offices/office-of-formula-grants/rural-insular-native-achievement-programs/rural-education-achievement-program/. Applicants are encouraged to retrieve locale codes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) School District search tool (https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/), where LEAs can be looked up individually to retrieve locale codes and Public School search tool (https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/), where individual schools can be looked up to retrieve locale codes.  Applicants are encouraged to retrieve campus settings from the NCES College Navigator search tool (https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/), where IHEs can be looked up individually to determine the campus setting.
• To determine whether an LEA is Urban, applicants are encouraged to retrieve locale codes from the NCES School District search tool https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/, searching by LEA.
• For Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates for school districts for the most recent income year, please see the Census.gov web site.