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About US – Office of Early Learning
The Office of Early Learning (OEL) is the principal office charged with supporting the Department’s Early Learning Initiative with the goal of improving the health, social-emotional, and cognitive outcomes for children from birth through third grade, so that all children, particularly those with high needs, are on track for graduating from high school college- and career-ready.
OEL is headed by a Deputy Assistant Secretary who reports directly to the Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education and advises the Assistant Secretary, Deputy Assistant Secretaries, and other top officials of the Department on policy and administrative issues related to early learning.
In administering the programs assigned to it, OEL establishes cooperative relationships with other Departmental Principal Offices and with other Federal agencies and governmental and nongovernmental organizations as appropriate. For example, OEL jointly administers the Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge grants with the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Currently, OEL oversees the following grant programs:
The purpose of the Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) program is to improve the quality of early learning and close the achievement gap for children with high needs. The RTT-ELC grant program focuses on improving early learning for young children by supporting States’ efforts to increase the number and percentage of children from low-income families and disadvantaged children in each age group of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers enrolled in high-quality early learning programs and designing and implementing an integrated system of high-quality early learning programs and services.
The Preschool Development Grants competition supports States to (1) build or enhance a preschool program infrastructure that would enable the delivery of high-quality preschool services to children, and (2) expand high-quality preschool programs in targeted communities that would serve as models for expanding preschool to all 4-year-olds from low- and moderate-income families. These grants would lay the groundwork to ensure that more States are ready to participate in the Preschool for All formula grant initiative proposed by the Administration.
This program offers grants to support local family literacy projects that integrate early childhood education, adult literacy (adult basic and secondary-level education and instruction for English language learners), parenting education, and interactive parent and child literacy activities for low-income families with parents who are eligible for services under the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act and their children from birth through age 7. Teen parents and their children from birth through age 7 also are eligible. All participating families must be those most in need of program services.
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The program supports the development of early childhood centers of excellence that focus on all areas of development, especially on the early language, cognitive, and pre-reading skills that prepare children for continued school success and that serve primarily children from low-income families.
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The purpose is to promote school readiness and improved learning outcomes of young children by providing high quality professional development programs to improve the knowledge and skills of early childhood educators and caregivers who work in early childhood programs located in high-poverty communities and who serve primarily children from low-income families.
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Spanish Language Fact Sheet — Carrera a la Cima
Financiamiento mediante la Ley Estadounidense de Recuperación y Reinversión (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act):
$4.35 mil millones
Adjudicatarios:
Los Estados, el Distrito de Columbia y Puerto Rico.
Tipo de subvención:
Por concurso
Para mayores informes:
www.ed.govhttps://www2.ed.gov/programs/racetothetop
Finalidad:
El Fondo Carrera a la Cima de $4.35 mil millones constituye la mayor inversión federal por concurso de la historia de la reforma educativa. Premiará a los estados por sus logros en el pasado y creará incentivos para mejoras en el futuro, y retará a los estados a crear estrategias integrales para abordar los cuatro aspectos centrales de la reforma que impulsarán mejoras en las escuelas:
- Adopción de la normativa y las evaluaciones internacionales que preparan a los estudiantes para triunfar en la universidad y el ámbito laboral;
- Captación, actualización, retención y premiación de maestros y directores efectivos, especialmente, donde se necesitan más;
- Elaboración de sistemas de datos que miden la eficacia de los estudiantes e indican a los maestros y directores cómo pueden mejorar la instrucción; y
- Reversión de la situación de las escuelas de rendimiento más bajo.
Las adjudicaciones en la Carrera a la Cima se destinarán a los Estados que lideran con planes ambiciosos y, al mismo tiempo alcanzables, para implantar una reforma educativa coherente, contundente y completa en estos aspectos. Estos Estados ayudarán a innovar con reformas efectivas y darán el ejemplo para los Estados y los distritos escolares locales de todo el país.
Calendario de solicitudes y adjudicaciones:
El Departamento realizará dos vueltas del concurso. El plazo para las solicitudes de la primera vuelta vencerá el 19 de enero de 2010. Los revisores evaluarán las solicitudes y el Departamento dará a conocer los adjudicatarios de la primera vuelta de financiamiento para abril de 2010. El plazo para las solicitudes de la segunda vuelta vencerá el 1 de junio de 2010, y se darán a conocer todos los adjudicatarios para septiembre de 2010. Los Estados que presentan solicitud para la primera vuelta pero que no resultan adjudicatarios podrán volver a presentar solicitud en la segunda vuelta (junto con los Estados que presentan solicitud por primera vez en la segunda vuelta). Los adjudicatarios de la primera vuelta reciben subvenciones completas por lo cual no podrán solicitar financiamiento adicional en la segunda vuelta.
El Departamento planea realizar otro concurso de $350 millones en la Carrera a la Cima que convocará posteriormente.
Resources
Legislation, Regulations and Guidance
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 AUTHORITY.
- CHAPTER B — LOCAL FLEXIBILITY DEMONSTRATION
- Sec. 6151. LOCAL FLEXIBILITY DEMONSTRATION AGREEMENTS.
- Sec. 6152. CONSOLIDATION AND USE OF FUNDS.
- Sec. 6153. LIMITATIONS ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENDITURES.
- Sec. 6154. PERFORMANCE REVIEW AND PENALTIES.
- Sec. 6155. RENEWAL OF LOCAL FLEXIBILITY DEMONSTRATION AGREEMENT.
- Sec. 6156. REPORTS.
Eligibility
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 that seeks a Local-Flex agreement may include no more than three LEAs. Furthermore, only LEAs that receive formula grant funds from their SEA under the Federal programs subject to consolidation may seek Local-Flex authority.
If an LEA has entered into a Local-Flex agreement with the Secretary, its SEA may may subsequently seek State-Flex authority only if that LEA agrees to have its Local-Flex agreement submitted as one of the proposed performance agreements in the SEA’s State-Flex application.
The Department may enter into Local Flexibility Demonstration Agreements with up to 80 local educational agencies across the country.
Note: By statute, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the outlying areas are not eligible to apply as LEAs for Local-Flex.
Awards
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
Applicant Information
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 have been approved. It is anticipated the review process will take 60 days after the application is received by the Department.
Application Package:
Federal Register Notice:
Notice Inviting Applications for the State Flexibility Demonstration Program and Local Flexibility Demonstration Program
Resources
general demographic information on migrant workers and agriculture
National Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS) – The U.S. Department of Labor is the only national information source on the demographics and working and living conditions of U.S. farmworkers. Since the NAWS began surveying farmworkers in 1988, it has collected information from over 25,000 workers. The survey samples all crop farmworkers in three cycles each year in order to capture the seasonality of the work. The NAWS locates and samples workers at their work sites, avoiding the well-publicized undercount of this difficult-to-find population. During the initial contact, arrangements are made to interview the respondent at home or at another convenient location.
U.S.Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Survey (NASS), Census of Agriculture – The census of agriculture is a complete accounting of United States agricultural production. It is the only source of uniform, comprehensive agricultural data for every county in the Nation. The census includes as a farm every place from which $1,000 or more of agricultural products were produced and sold or normally would have been sold during the census year. The census of agriculture is taken every five years covering the years ending in “2”; and “7.”
general education publications and products
General Education Publications and Products – The U.S. Department of Education publishes a wealth of information for teachers, administrators, policymakers, researchers, parents, students, and others with a stake in education. Learn more about publications available through the Department.
other resources
The Office of Migrant Education provides links to clearinghouses, technical assistance resources and related programs.
Legislation, Regulations and Guidance
legislation
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended, Title I, Part C, Sec. 1308; 20 U.S.C. 6398.
regulations
Program regulations are found at EDGAR; 34 CFR 200.
