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Funding Status

Fiscal Year (FY) Appropriation Number of New Awards Range of New Awards Number of Continuation Awards Range of Continuation Awards
FY 2022 $54,000,000 0 0 21 $1,000,000 to $6,472,657*
FY 2021 $52,000,000 1 $1,475,000* 20 $1,000,000 to $6,429,926*
FY 2020 $52,000,000 0 0 21 $1,000,000 to $6,472,657
FY 2019 $52,000,000 20 $1,000,000 to $6,471,484 1 $1,499,507
FY 2018 $50,000,000 0 0 22
FY 2017 $50,000,000 0 0 22
FY 2016 $51,445,000 1 $1,449,831 22
FY 2015 $48,445,000 0 0 22

*Estimated amounts

2021

FY 2021 Appropriation: $52,000,000

Number of New Awards: 1

  • 1 National Center on Improving Literacy

Number of Continuation Awards: 20

  • 19 Regional Comprehensive Centers
  • 1 National Comprehensive Center

2020

FY 2020 Appropriation: $52,000,000

Number of New Awards: 0

Number of Continuation Awards: 21

  • 19 Regional Comprehensive Centers
  • 1 National Comprehensive Center
  • 1 National Comprehensive Center on Improving Literacy

2019

Appropriation: $52,000,000
Number of New Awards: 20

  • 19 Regional Comprehensive Centers
  • 1 National Comprehensive Center
  • Number of Continuation Awards: 1
  • 1 National Center on Improving Literacy

FY 2019 New Awards

The total amount of funds available for the CC program for FY 2019 was $52 million. Of that amount, approximately $45 million was used to fund Regional Centers and $5 million was used to fund the National Comprehensive Center. FY 2019 funds supported awards for the first budget period of the project, which is the first 12 months of the project period. Funding for the subsequent budget periods of years two through five (FY 2020 through FY 2023) is contingent on appropriation levels.

Estimated Range of FY 2019 Awards: For Regional Comprehensive Centers: $1,000,000 to $6,472,657.

Note: The Department is not bound by any planned award estimates

Region Award
Region 01 $1,000,000.00
Region 02 $2,360,643.00
Region 03 $1,000,000.00
Region 04 $2,557,246.00
Region 05 $2,444,035.00
Region 06 $3,215,377.00
Region 07 $3,378,769.00
Region 08 $3,212,089.00
Region 09 $1,722,122.00
Region 10 $1,302,938.00
Region 11 $1,243,525.00
Region 12 $1,963,421.00
Region 13 $1,647,431.00
Region 14 $5,413,470.00
Region 15 $6,472,657.00
Region 16 $3,316,771.00
Region 17 $1,000,000.00
Region 18 $1,000,000.00
Region 19 $1,000,000.00
National Center $5,000,000.00

* Estimate includes $400,000 to support the Bureau of Indian Education

2018

Appropriation: $52,000,000
Number of New Awards: 0

Number of Continuation Awards: 23

  • 15 Regional Comprehensive Centers
  • 7 Content Centers
  • 1 National Comprehensive Center on Improving Literacy
  • Average Continuation Award:
  • $2,700,008 for Regional Comprehensive Centers*
  • $1,428,571 for Content Centers*
  • $1,499,890 for National Comprehensive Center on Improving Literacy
    • FLICC will provide technical assistance to the Puerto Rico Department of Education to provide capacity-building services and develop a system of support for local education agencies. WCC will provide technical assistance to the Bureau of Indian Education build capacity in the collection and use of data, and organizational effectiveness.
  • *These averages include supplemental funding.
  • The Comprehensive Centers Program provided supplemental funding to the following centers: Florida and the Islands Comprehensive Center (FLICC), West Comprehensive Center (WCC).

2017

Appropriation: $50,000,000
Number of New Awards: 0

Number of Continuation Awards: 23

  • 15 Regional Comprehensive Centers
  • 7 Content Centers
  • 1 National Comprehensive Center on Improving Literacy

Average Continuation Award:

  • $2,516,956 for Regional Centers*
  • $1,482,854 for Content Centers*
  • $1,499,700 for National Comprehensive Center on Improving Literacy

The Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education provided supplemental funding to the center on Great Teachers and Leaders.

The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services provided supplemental funding to the Center on Great Teachers and Leaders.

The Comprehensive Centers program provided supplemental funding to the centers of Building State Capacity and Productivity (BSCP), West Comprehensive Center (WCC), Pacific Region Comprehensive Center (PRCC), and North Central Comprehensive Center.

BSCP will create and operate a web portal for the Comprehensive Center network. WCC will support the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) by providing direct technical assistance and coordinating technical assistance, where appropriate, from national Content Centers.  PRCC will support the Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of Marshall Islands, and American Samoa in a variety of areas, including formative assessments, teacher evaluation systems, and language proficiency, and NCCC will develop state capacity to support English language learners in North Dakota and to continue on-going supports for English language learners in Nebraska and South Dakota.

*These averages include supplemental funding.

2016

Appropriation: $51,445,000
Number of New Awards: 1

Number of Continuation Awards: 22

  • 15 Regional Comprehensive Centers
  • 7 Content Centers
  • 1 National Center on Improving Literacy

Average Continuation Award:

  • $2,640,927 for Regional Comprehensive Centers*
  • $2,082,779 for Content Centers*
  • $1,449,831 for National Comprehensive Center on Improving Literacy

The Office of Indian Education provided supplemental funding to the following centers: North Central, Northwest, South Central, West, and Standards & Assessments Implementation.

The Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education provided supplemental funding to the centers on Great Teachers and Leaders and College and Career Readiness & Success.

The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services provided supplemental funding to the Center on Great Teachers and Leaders.

The Comprehensive Centers program provided supplemental funding to the centers of Building State Capacity and Productivity (BSCP) and Standards & Assessments Implementation (CSAI).

BSCP will provide technical assistance to SEAS to increase their capacity to meet the requirements of fiscal data reporting under the ESEA, as amended by the ESSA. CSAI will assist the Bureau of Indian Education’s Office of Assessment and Accountability in its efforts to collect, organize, and report Federally-required data in the 23 States in which there are BIE-funded schools and to do so using a methodology based on each State’s accountability system.

In 2016, the National Comprehensive Center on Improving Literacy for Students with Disabilities received a 5-year grant under authority provided in section 2244 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015.

These averages include supplemental funding.

2015

Appropriation: $48,445,000
Number of New Awards: 0

Number of Continuation Awards: 22

  • 15 Regional Comprehensive Centers
  • 7 Content Centers

Average Continuation Award:

  • $2,574,768 for Regional Centers
  • $1,480,120 for Content Centers

2014

Appropriation: $48,445,000
Number of New Awards: 0

Number of Continuation Awards: 22

  • 15 Regional Comprehensive Centers
  • 7 Content Centers

Average Continuation Award:

  • $2,574,768 for Regional Centers
  • $1,480,120 for Content Centers

The Indian Education National Activities program provided supplemental funding to the following centers: North Central, Northwest, South Central, West, and Standards and Assessments Implementation.

The School Improvement Grants National Activities program provided supplemental funding to the Center on School Turnaround.

The Special Education Technical Assistance and Dissemination program and the Career and Technical Education National Activities program provided supplemental funding to the Center on Great Teachers and Leaders.

The Preschool Development Grant National Activities program provided supplemental funding to the Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes.

2013

Appropriation: $48,445,000
Number of New Awards: 0

Number of Continuation Awards: 22

  • 15 Regional Comprehensive Centers
  • 7 Content Centers

Average Continuation Award:

  • $2,574,768 for Regional Comprehensive Centers
  • $1,480,120 for Content Centers

2012

Appropriation: $ 51,113,213
Number of New Awards: 22

  • 15 Regional Comprehensive Centers
  • 7 Content Centers

Number of Continuation Awards: 0
Average New Award: $2,370,237
Range of New Awards:

  • $825,000 to $4,895,053 for Regional Centers
  • $1,428,571 to $2,478,571 for Content Centers

Three Regional Center awards (Northwest, South Central, and West) include $331,000 each from the Indian Education National Activities Program.

Great Teachers and Leaders received $750,000 from the Special Education Technical Assistance and Dissemination program and $300,000 from the Career and Technical Education National Activities Program.

Eligibility

Who May Apply: Research organizations, institutions, agencies, institutes of higher education, or partnerships among such entities, or individuals, with the demonstrated ability or capacity to carry out the activities described in this notice, including regional entities that carried out activities under the Educational Research, Development, Dissemination, and Improvement Act of 1994 (as such Act existed on the day before November 5, 2002) and title XIII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (as such title existed on the day before January 8, 2002).

Awards

Comprehensive Center Grantees (2019-2024)

Regional Comprehensive Centers

Note: Redacted Application Disclaimer: Information within the redacted 2019 Comprehensive Center (CC) applications have been deemed proprietary by the grantee. To ensure a consistent approach to redaction, Comprehensive Centers reviewed their successful 2019 CC applications for information that may be protected under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Exemption 4, which protects from “disclosure of trade secrets and commercial or financial information obtained from a person that is privileged or confidential.” 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(4). Based on the grantee’s review and requests, specific information within the application was honored and redacted in full, only for the limited purpose of this proactive disclosure.  All CCs were provided the opportunity to object to the agreement to post applications “as-is” or object to the disclosure of information.  

Region 1: Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont
American Institutes for Research
Waltham, MA
Susan Therriault, Co-Director
Ellen Cushing, Director
Phone: (202) 403-5524
Region 1: 2019 CC Winning Grant Application – Redacted

Region 2: Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island
WestEd
Brooklyn, NY
Sarah Barzee , Director
Phone: (860) 638-8461
Region 2: 2019 CC Grant Winning Application – Redacted

Region 3: Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands
Educational Testing Services
Hato Rey, PR
John Lockwood, Director
Phone: (813) 957-0089
Region 3: 2019 CC Winning Grant Application

Region 4: Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
Policy Study Associates, Inc
Washington, DC
Jeanine Hildreth, Director
Phone: (202) 939-5324
Region 4: 2019 CC Winning Grant Application -Redacted

Region 5: Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia
Westat, Inc.
Charleston, WV
Kimberly Hambrick, Director
Phone: (304) 206-6819
Region 5: 2019 CC Winning Grant Application -Redacted

Region 6: Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Browns Summit, NC
George Hancock, Director
Phone: (336) 315-7435
Region 6: 2019 CC Winning Grant Application -Redacted

Region 7: Alabama, Florida, Mississippi
RMC Research Corporation
Tampa, FL
Robin Jarvis, Director
Phone: (813) 915-0010
Region 7: 2019 CC Winning Grant Application

Region 8: Indiana, Michigan, Ohio
ICF Incorporated LLC
Ann Arbor, MI
Caitlin Howley, Co-Director
Thomas “T.J.” Horwood, Co-Director
Phone: (734) 926-0949
Region 8: 2019 CC Winning Grant Application

Region 9: Illinois, Iowa
American Institutes for Research
Chicago, IL
Aaron Butler, Director
Phone: (312) 288-7612
Region 9: 2019 CC Winning Grant Application -Redacted

Region 10: Minnesota, Wisconsin
The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
Madison, WI<br
Kim Gibbons, Co-Director
Phone: (612) 625-9751
Alisia Moutry, Co-Director
Phone: (608) 261-1938
Region 10: 2019 CC Winning Grant Application

Region 11: Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming
McREL International
Cheyenne, WY
Joseph Simpson, Co-Director
Susan Shebby, Co-Director
Phone: (307) 222-5261
Region 11: 2019 CC Winning Grant Application -Redacted

Region 12: Colorado, Kansas, Missouri
McREL International
Denver, CO
Dale Lewis, Director
Phone: (303) 632-5522
Region 12: 2019 CC Winning Grant Application -Redacted

Region 13: Bureau of Indian Education, New Mexico, Oklahoma
WestEd
Santa Fe, NM
Marie Mancuso, Director
Phone (602) 549-3955
Region 13: 2019 CC Winning Grant Application -Redacted

Region 14: Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas
Westat, Inc.
Austin, TX
Kristen Nafziger, Director
Phone: (512) 893-4503
Region 14: 2019 CC Winning Grant Application -Redacted

Region 15: Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah
WestEd
Sacramento, CA
Kandace Jones, Co-Director
Kate Wright, Co-Director
Phone: (916) 492-4073
Region 15: 2019 CC Winning Grant Application -Redacted

Region 16: Alaska, Oregon, Washington
SERRC (Southeast Regional Resource Center)
Juneau, AK
Bernie Sorenson, Director
Phone: (907) 586-6806
Region 16: 2019 CC Winning Grant Application -Redacted

Region 17: Idaho, Montana
Education Northwest
Boise, ID
Jennifer Esswein, Director
Phone: (503) 275-9636
Region 17: 2019 CC Winning Grant Application -Redacted

Region 18: Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Palau
Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL)
Pohnpei, FSM
Emerson Odango, Director
Phone: (808) 441-1300
Region 18: 2019 CC Winning Grant Application -Redacted

Region 19: American Samoa, Hawaii, Republic of the Marshall Islands
Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL)
Honolulu, HI
Melly Wilson, Director
Phone: (808) 441-1354
Region 19: 2019 CC Winning Grant Application -Redacted

National Comprehensive Center

National Comprehensive Center
Westat, Inc.
Rockville, MD
Allison Crean Davis, Director
Jill Lammert, Co-Director
Phone: (240) 314-2418
National Comprehensive Center: 2019 CC Winning Grant Application -Redacted

For more information about each Center, visit: https://compcenternetwork.org/meet-centers

Comprehensive Centers Program

The Comprehensive Centers program supports the establishment of not less than 20 Comprehensive Centers (CCs) to provide capacity-building services to State educational agencies (SEAs), regional educational agencies (REAs), local educational agencies (LEAs), and schools that improve educational outcomes for all students, close achievement gaps, and improve the quality of instruction.

By statute, the Department is required to establish at least one center in each of the 10 geographic regions served by the Department’s Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs).

The 2019 cohort of Comprehensive Centers, which received initial awards in 2019, includes 19 Regional Centers and 1 National Center. An additional content center, funded in response to 2016 appropriations language and a new authority in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as reauthorized by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), focuses on students at risk of not attaining full literacy skills due to a disability.

Each Comprehensive Center must develop a 5-year plan for carrying out authorized activities. The plan of each center is developed to address the needs of SEAs in meeting ESEA student achievement goals, as well as priorities established by the Department and the States. Each center has an advisory board, with representation from SEAs, LEAs, institutions of higher education, educators, administrators, policymakers, researchers, and business representatives, that advises the center on: (1) allocation of resources, (2) strategies for monitoring and addressing the region’s educational needs (or the regional centers’ needs in the case of the content centers), (3) maintaining a high standard of quality in the performance of its activities, and (4) carrying out the center’s activities in a manner that promotes progress toward improving student academic achievement.

Types of Projects

Centers develop annual service plans for carrying out authorized activities that address State and regional needs.

Regional Centers provide high-quality intensive capacity-building services to State clients and recipients to identify, implement, and sustain effective evidence-based practices that support improved educator and student outcomes. These services include:

    1. Carrying out approved Consolidated State Plans under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 (ESEA)
    2. Implementing and scaling-up evidence-based programs, practices, and interventions that address the unique educational obstacles faced by rural populations
    3. Identifying and carrying out capacity-building services to clients that help States address corrective actions or results from audit findings and monitoring, conducted by the Department, that are programmatic in nature, at the request of the client
    4. Working with the National Center to identify trends and best practices, and develop cost-effective strategies to make their work available to as many REAs, LEAs, and schools in need of support as possible

The National Comprehensive Center provides high-quality universal and targeted capacity-building services to address common high-leverage problems, services to address programmatic monitoring reports and audit findings, implementation challenges, and emerging national education trends. Services include:

    1. Implementing approved ESEA Consolidated State Plans
    2. Implementing and scaling evidence-based programs, practices, and interventions that directly benefit entities that have high percentages or numbers of students from low-income families as referenced in Title I, Part A of the ESEA (ESEA sec. 1113(a)(5) and 1111(d)) and recipients that are implementing comprehensive support and improvement activities or targeted support and improvement activities as referenced in Title I, Part A of the ESEA (ESEA sec. 1111(d))
    3. Implementing and scaling-up of evidence-based programs, practices, and interventions that address the unique educational obstacles faced by rural populations
    4. Implementing effective strategies for reaching and supporting as many SEAs, REAs, LEAs, and schools in need of services as possible

For information about current Comprehensive Center projects, visit https://compcenternetwork.org/states.

School Climate Transformation Grant – State Educational Agency Grants Program

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The School Climate Transformation Grant—State Educational Agency Program provides competitive grants to State educational agencies (SEAs) to develop, enhance, or expand systems of support for, and technical assistance to, local educational agencies (LEAs) and schools implementing an evidence-based, multi-tiered behavioral framework for improving behavioral outcomes and learning conditions for all students.

TYPES OF PROJECTS

Projects should develop, enhance, or expand statewide systems of support for, and technical assistance to, local educational agencies and schools implementing an evidence-based, multi-tiered behavioral framework for improving behavioral outcomes and learning conditions for all students.

School Climate Transformation Grant – Local Educational Agency (LEA) Grants Program

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The School Climate Transformation Grant—Local Educational Agency (LEA) program provides competitive grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) to develop, enhance, or expand systems of support for, and technical assistance to, schools implementing a multi-tiered system of support, for improving school climate.

TYPES OF PROJECTS

Projects should:

  • build capacity for implementing a sustained, school-wide multi-tiered behavioral framework;
  • enhance capacity by providing training and technical assistance to schools; and
  • include an assurance that the applicant will work with a technical assistance provider, such as the PBIS Technical Assistance Center funded by the Department, to ensure that technical assistance related to implementing program activities is provided.

See links to additional information in the box to the right.

Grants to States for School Emergency Management Grant Program

Types of Projects

Projects should increase the SEA’s capacity to provide training and technical assistance to LEAs for the development and implementation of high-quality school EOPs.

Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Program

What’s New

The Javits Program Project Director’s Meeting webinars were held on December
6, 12, and 13, 2022. To view presentations from the webinars, please go to the
Resources tab.

The FY 2022 Javits Program Grantees were announced in September 2022. For
more information about these grantees and to view their funded applications,
please go to the Awards tab.

Program Description

The purpose of this program is to carry out a coordinated program of evidence-based 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. The major emphasis of the program is on serving students traditionally underrepresented in gifted and talented programs (particularly economically disadvantaged, limited English proficient (LEP), and disabled students) to help reduce the serious gap in achievement among certain groups of students at the highest levels of achievement.

Grants are awarded under two priorities. Priority One supports initiatives to develop and scale up models serving students who are underrepresented in gifted and talented programs. Priority Two supports state and local efforts to improve services for gifted and talented students.

Types of Projects

Programs and projects assisted under this program may include any of the following:

  • Conducting evidence-based research on methods and techniques for identifying and teaching gifted and talented students and for using gifted and talented programs and methods to identify and provide the opportunity for all students to be served, particularly low-income and at-risk students.
  • Establishing and operating programs and projects for identifying and serving gifted and talented students, including innovative methods and strategies (such as summer programs, mentoring programs, peer tutoring programs, service learning programs, and cooperative learning programs involving business, industry and education) for identifying and educating students who may not be served by traditional gifted and talented programs.
  • Providing technical assistance and disseminating information, which may include how gifted and talented programs and methods may be adapted for use by all students, particularly low-income and at-risk students.

In addition, the program supports the National Center for Research on Gifted Education for the purpose of carrying out the allowable activities described above.

Assistance for Homeless Children and Youth

The Department is not accepting applications for this program at this time. This page will be updated to with new information for future applicants when funding is made available.

The purpose of this program is to award grants to eligible State educational agencies (SEAs) to enable them to provide financial assistance to local educational agencies (LEAs) that serve homeless children and youth displaced by a covered disaster or emergency.  The program helps to address the educational and related needs of these students in a manner consistent with section 723 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (McKinney-Vento Act) and with section 106 of Title IV of Division B of Public Law 109-148.