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2023-2024 Cohort Coming Soon We will be announcing the 2023-2024 Cohort of the School Ambassador Fellowship in the coming weeks.  Please return to this page to learn all about the new cohort: In the meantime, you may use the links below to learn about previous School Ambassador Fellowship cohorts. 2022-2023 Full-Time and Part-Time Fellows 2021-2022 […]

To be eligible for the School Ambassador Fellowship program, participants must: Be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident. Currently be a teacher, principal or other school staff member (and anticipate being employed in this role during the next school year). Employed by a traditional public, charter, private, virtual, military (DoDEA), or tribal (BIE) school that […]

Eligibility To be eligible for the School Ambassador Fellowship program, participants must: Be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident. Currently be a teacher, administrator, student support provider, or other school staff member (and anticipate being employed in this role during the next school year). Employed by a traditional accredited public, charter, private, virtual, military (DoDEA), […]

Founded on the principles of partnership, collaboration and cooperation  between the Federal Government and school-based educators, the U.S. Department of Education designed the School Ambassador Fellowship program to enable outstanding teachers, administrators, and other school leaders, such as school counselors, psychologists, social workers, and librarians to bring their school and classroom expertise to the Department […]

Flexibility website

TITLE VI — FLEXIBILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY Subpart 3 — State and Local Flexibility Demonstration Sec. 6131. SHORT TITLE. Sec. 6132. PURPOSE. Sec. 6133. GENERAL PROVISION. CHAPTER A — STATE FLEXIBILITY AUTHORITY Sec. 6141. STATE FLEXIBILITY. Sec. 6142. CONSOLIDATION AND USE OF FUNDS. Sec. 6143. PERFORMANCE REVIEW AND PENALTIES. Sec. 6144. RENEWAL OF GRANT OF FLEXIBILITY […]

Local educational agencies (LEAs) are the eligible applicants for this program. If a State educational agency (SEA) has received State-Flex authority from the Secretary, its LEAs may not apply to the Department for Local-Flex. By statute, the Secretary may enter into Local-Flex agreements with no more than three LEAs in a State. Therefore, any consortium […]

The Department may enter into Local Flexibility Demonstration Agreements with up to 80 local educational agencies across the country. Current Local-Flex recipient: Seattle Public School District September 2003-August 2006 September 2006-August 2011 Press Release

Timeline Applications Available: Applications for State-Flex and Local-Flex are being accepted on an ongoing basis. Currently no States have the State-Flex authority. Closing Date: There is no specific application deadline. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis as they are received until the maximum number of State-Flex and Local-Flex proposals authorized by the statute […]