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21st Century Community Learning Centers
Email: 21stCCLC@ed.gov
Deadline: Varies by state.
Funding: Congress has appropriated $991.07 million for afterschool programs in FY 2005.
Type of funding: Formula Grants

Description: The focus of this program is to provide expanded academic enrichment opportunities for children attending low performing schools. Tutorial services and academic enrichment activities are designed to help students meet local and state academic standards in subjects such as reading and math. In addition 21st CCLC programs provide youth development activities, drug and violence prevention programs, technology education programs, art, music and recreation programs, counseling and character education to enhance the academic component of the program.

Administration for Native Americans (ANA)
U. S. Department of Health and Human Services
200 Independence Avenue, SW, Rm 348-F
Washington, DC 20201
Phone: 202-690-5780
Fax: 202-690-8145
Deadline: Check for applications being accepted for FY07.
Funding: Funding levels vary by request.

Description: The Administration for Native Americans (ANA), within the Administration for Children and Families, announces the availability of funds for new community-based activities under ANA's Native Language program. Financial assistance will be given to eligible applicants for the purpose of assisting Native Americans in assuring the survival and continuing vitality of their languages. Grants are provided under the following two categories: Category I Assessment Grants are used to conduct the assessment needed to identify the current status of the Native American language(s) to be addressed and to establish community long-range language goals; and, Category II Design and/or Implementation Grants are to design and/or implement a preservation language project that will contribute to the achievement of the community's long-range language goal(s).

Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions
U.S. Department of Education, OPE
Higher Education Programs
Institutional Development and Undergraduate Education Programs
1990 K Street, N.W., 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20006-8513
Phone: 202-502-7777
Fax: 202-502-7861
Email: ope_institutional_development@ed.gov
Deadline: Check for applications being accepted for FY07.
Funding: Funding levels vary by type of funding.
Type of funding: Discretionary/Competitive Grants, Cooperative Agreements

Description: Title III Part A includes the Strengthening Institutions Program, the American Indian Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities, and the Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions Program. The programs assist eligible institutions of higher education to become self-sufficient by providing funds to improve and strengthen their academic quality and institutional, management, and fiscal stability. One-year planning grants and five-year development grants are awarded. Funds may be used for faculty development, funds and administrative management, development and improvement of academic programs, joint use of facilities, and student services.

Alaska Native Education Program
US Department of Education
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
Office of Indian Education
400 Maryland Ave, SW
Washington, DC 20202-6200
Phone: 202-401-0281
Fax: 202-260-8969
Email: Alexis.Fisher@ed.gov
Deadline: Check for applications being accepted for FY07.
Funding: Funding levels vary.
Type of funding: Discretionary/Competitive Grants

Description: To help meet the unique educational needs of Alaska Native and to support the development of supplemental educational program to benefit Alaska Natives.

American Indian Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities
U.S. Department of Education, OPE
Higher Education Programs
Institutional Development and Undergraduate Education Programs
1990 K Street, N.W., 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20006-8513
Phone: 202-502-7777
Fax: 202-502-7861
Email: ope_institutional_development@ed.gov
Deadline: Check for applications being accepted for FY07.
Funding: Funding levels vary by type of funding.
Type of funding: Discretionary/Competitive Grants, Cooperative Agreements

Description: Title III Part A includes the Strengthening Institutions Program, the American Indian Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities, and the Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions Program. The programs assist eligible institutions of higher education to become self-sufficient by providing funds to improve and strengthen their academic quality, and institutional, management, and fiscal stability. One-year planning grants and five-year development grants are awarded. Funds may be used for faculty development, funds and administrative management, development and improvement of academic programs, joint use of facilities, and student services.

Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination Grants Program
U.S. Department of Education
Improvement Programs
400 Maryland Avenue, SW, FB-6, Room 4W214
Washington, DC 20202
Phone: 202-260-1280
Fax: 202-205-5620
Email: artsdemo@ed.gov
Deadline: Check for applications being accepted for FY07.
Funding: Funding levels vary by type of funding.
Type of funding: Discretionary/Competitive Grants

Description: This program supports the development, documentation, evaluation, and dissemination of innovative, cohesive models that demonstrate effectiveness in: Integrating and strengthening arts into the core elementary and middle school curricula; Strengthening arts instruction in those grades; and Improving students' academic performance, including their skills in creating, performing, and responding to the arts. Grants are designed to enable local education agencies and organizations with art expertise to further create and develop materials for the replication or adaptation of current comprehensive approaches for integrating a range of arts disciplines--such as music, dance, theater, and visual arts, including folk arts--into the elementary and middle school curricula.

Credit Enhancement for Charter School Facilities
U.S. Department of Education
Credit Enhancement for Charter School Facilities Grants Program
400 Maryland Avenue, SW, FB-6, Room 4W245
Washington, DC 20202-6140
Phone: 202-205-9765
Fax: 202-205-5630
Email: Charter.facilities@ed.gov
Deadline: Check for applications being accepted for FY07.
Funding: Funding levels vary by type of funding.
Type of funding: Discretionary/Competitive Grants

Description: This program provides assistance to help charter schools meet their facility needs. Under this program, funds are provided on a competitive basis to public and nonprofit entities, and consortia of those entities, to leverage other funds and help charter schools obtain school facilities through such means as purchase, lease, and donation. Grantees may also use grants to leverage funds to help charter schools construct and renovate school facilities.

Early Childhood Educator Professional Development Program
US Department of Education
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202-6000
Phone: 202-260-4555
Fax: 202-260-7764
Email: rosemary.fennell@ed.gov
Deadline: Check for applications being accepted for FY07.
Funding: Funding levels vary.
Type of funding: Discretionary/Competitive Grants

Description: The program purpose is to enhance the school readiness of young children, particularly disadvantaged young children. In an attempt to prevent young children from encountering reading difficulties once they enter school, the program seeks to improve the knowledge and skills of early childhood educators who work in communities that have high concentrations of children living in poverty. In particular, projects must utilize evidence-based practice focused on early reading and cognitive development for both the professional development activities and early childhood curricula. The program authorizes project partnerships to include an entity with demonstrated experience in providing training to educators in early childhood education programs concerning identifying and preventing behavior problems or working with children identified as or suspected to be victims of abuse. Allowable activities include, among others, professional development to familiarize early childhood educators with the application of recent research on child language and literary development and professional development on working with children who have special needs, such as those who are limited English proficient.

Early Reading First Programs
U.S. Department of Education
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202-6000
Phone: 202-260-4555
Fax: 202-260-7764
Deadline: Check for applications being accepted for FY07.
Funding: Funding levels vary by type of funding.
Type of funding: Discretionary/Competitive Grants

Description: The program is designed to transform existing early education programs into centers of excellence that provide high-quality, early education to young children, especially those from low-income families. The overall purpose of the Early Reading First Program is to prepare young children to enter kindergarten with the necessary language, cognitive, and early reading skills to prevent reading difficulties and ensure school success.

Even Start Grants for Indian Tribes and Tribal Organizations
U.S. Department of Education
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW, Rm 3W230-FOB-6
Washington, D.C. 20202-6132
Phone: 202-260-0999
Deadline: Check for applications being accepted for FY07.
Funding: Funding levels vary by type of funding.
Type of funding: Discretionary/Competitive Grants

Description: The purpose of this program is to help break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy by improving the educational opportunities of low-income American Indian and Alaska Native families. This program integrates early childhood education, adult literacy or adult basic education, parenting education and interactive parent-child literacy activities into a unified family literacy program for federally recognized Indian tribes and tribal organizations.

Federal TRIO Programs
U.S. Department of Education
1990 K Street, NW, 7th Floor
Washington, DC 20006-8510
Email: ope_trio@ed.gov
Deadline: Check for applications being accepted for FY07.
Funding: Funding levels vary by type of funding.
Type of funding: Discretionary/Competitive Grants

Description: The Federal TRIO Programs are educational opportunity outreach programs designed to motivate and support students from disadvantaged backgrounds. TRIO includes six outreach and support programs targeted to serve and assist low-income, first-generation college students, and students with disabilities to progress through the academic pipeline from middle school to postbaccalaureate programs.

Impact Aid
U.S. Department of Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202-6244
Phone: 202-260-3858
Fax: 202-205-0088
Email: impactaid@ed.gov
Deadline: Check for applications being accepted for FY07.
Funding: Funding levels vary by type of funding.
Type of funding:Formula Grants, Discretionary/Competitive Grants

Description: The Impact Aid program provides financial support to school districts affected by federal activities. The presence of certain children living on federal property across the country may place a financial burden on the school districts that educate them. The property on which these children live is exempt from local property taxes, denying districts access to the primary source of revenue used by most communities to finance education. Impact Aid helps to replace the lost local revenue that would otherwise be available to districts to pay for the education of these children.

Improving Literacy Through School Libraries
U.S. Department of Education
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202
Phone: 202-401-0113
Fax: 202-205-0310
Email: oese@ed.gov
Deadline: Check for applications being accepted for FY07.
Funding: Funding levels vary by type of funding.
Type of funding: Discretionaty/Competitive Grants

Description: The program helps local education agencies (LEAs) improve reading achievement by providing students with increased access to up-to-date school library materials; well-equipped, technologically advanced school library media centers; and professionally certified school library media specialists. LEAs may use their funds to: (1) acquire up-to-date school library media resources; (2) acquire and use advanced technology to develop and enhance the information literacy, information retrieval, and critical thinking skills of students; (3) facilitate Internet links and other resource-sharing networks; (4) provide professional development for school library media specialists and provide activities that foster increased collaboration between school library media specialists, teachers, and administrators; and (5) provide students with access to school libraries during nonschool hours.

Indian Education Demonstration Grants
US Department of Education
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
Office of Indian Education
400 Maryland Ave, SW
Washington, DC 20202-6200
Phone: 202-260-1683
Fax: 202-260-7770
Email: Cathie.Martin@ed.gov
Deadline: Check for applications being accepted for FY07.
Funding: Funding levels vary.

Description: This program is designed to improve the educational opportunities and achievement of preschool, elementary, and secondary school American Indian children by developing, testing, and demonstrating effective services and programs. The absolute funding priorities for the program in FY 2005 limit project services to: (1) school readiness projects that provide age appropriate educational programs and language skills to three- and four-year-old American Indian students to prepare them for successful entry into school at the kindergarten level; and (2) college preparatory programs for secondary school students designed to increase competency and skills in challenging subject matter, including mathematics and science, to enable American Indian students to transition to postsecondary education.

Indian Education Professional Development
US Department of Education
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
Office of Indian Education
400 Maryland Ave, SW
Washington, DC 20202-6200
Phone: 202-260-1683
Fax: 202-260-7770
Email: Cathie.Martin@ed.gov
Deadline: Check for applications being accepted for FY07.
Funding: Funding levels vary.

Description: The program is designed to prepare and train Indians to serve as teachers and school administrators. Professional development grants are awarded to: increase the number of qualified individuals in professions that serve American Indians; provide training to qualified American Indians to become teachers, administrators, teacher aides, social workers, and ancillary education personnel; and improve the skills of those qualified American Indians who already serve in these capacities. Individuals trained under this program must perform work related to their training and that benefits Indian people or repay the assistance received. The absolute funding priorities for the program in FY 2005 limit project services to preservice training for teachers and preservice training for school administrators.

Institute of Education Sciences
U.S. Department of Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202
Phone: 800-USA-LEARN; TTY: 800-437-0833
Fax: 202-401-0689
Deadline: Check for applications being accepted for FY07.
Funding: Funding levels vary by type of funding.
Type of funding: Discretionary/Competitive Grants and Contracts

Description: Under the program title Education Funding, the Institute of Education Sciences supports to improve education at all levels. The intent of these grants is to provide national leadership in expanding fundamental knowledge and understanding of education from early childhood through postsecondary study.

Institute of Museum and Library Services
1800 M Street NW, 9th Floor
Washington, DC 20036-5802
Phone: 202-653-4657
Fax: 202-653-4600
Email: imlsinfo@imls.gov
Deadline: Check for applications being accepted for FY07.
Funding: Funding levels vary by request.
Type of funding: Noncompetitive.

Description: The Basic Grant is a noncompetitive grant that is distributed in equal amounts among eligible applicants. Basic Grants are available to support existing library operations and to maintain core library services. The Education/ Assessment Option is supplemental to the Basic Grant. It is also noncompetitive and must be requested. The purpose of the Education/Assessment Option is to provide funding for library staff to attend continuing education courses and/or training workshops on- or offsite; for library staff to attend or give presentations at conferences related to library services; and/or to hire a consultant for an onsite professional library assessment. Indian tribes and Alaska Native villages and corporations are eligible to apply for funding under this program. Entities such as libraries, schools, tribal colleges, or departments of education are not eligible applicants, although they may be involved in the administration of this program and their staff may serve as project directors.

Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Program
U.S. Department of Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202-6200
Phone: 202-260-7813
Fax: 202-260-8969
Deadline: Check for applications being accepted for FY07.
Funding: Funding levels vary by type of funding.
Type of funding: Discretionary/Competitive Grants

Description: The purpose of the Javits program is to carry out a coordinated program of scientifically based research, demonstration projects, innovative strategies, and similar activities designed to build and enhance the ability of elementary and secondary schools to meet the special educational needs of gifted and talented students. The major emphasis of the program is on serving students traditionally under represented in gifted and talented programs, particularly economically disadvantaged, limited English proficient, and disabled students, to help reduce the serious gap in achievement among certain groups of students at the highest levels of achievement.

Local Flexibility Demonstration Program
U.S. Department of Education
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW, Rm. 3E213
Washington, DC 20202-6400
Phone: 202-401-0039
Email: LocalFlex@ed.gov
Deadline: No specific application deadline.
Funding: Funding levels vary by type of funding.

Description: To give selected State educational agencies (SEAs) and local educational agencies (LEAs) greater flexibility in the use of Federal funds to (1) improve and be accountable for the academic achievement of all students, especially disadvantaged students; (2) improve teacher quality and subject-matter mastery, especially in mathematics, reading, and science; (3) better empower parents, educators, administrators, and schools to address effectively the needs of their children and students; and (4) narrow achievement gaps between the lowest- and highest-achieving groups of students so that no child is left behind.

Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program
U.S. Department of Education
Higher Education Programs
Institutional Development and Undergraduate Education Service
Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program
1990 K Street NW, 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: 202-502-7777
Fax: 202-502-7861
Email: OPE_MSEIP@ed.gov
Deadline: Check for applications being accepted for FY07.
Funding: Funding levels vary by type of funding.
Type of funding: Discretionary/Competitive Grants

Description: The program provides grants to effect long-range improvement in science education at predominantly minority institutions and to increase the flow of underrepresented ethnic minorities, particularly minority women, into science and engineering careers.

National Park Service
US Department of Interior
Historic Preservation Fund Grants to Indian Tribes and Alaska Natives
1849 C Street, NW (2256)
Washington, DC 20240
Email: info@nps.gov
Deadline: Check for applications being accepted for FY07.
Funding: Maximum grant award is $40,000 for all grants. The minimum award is $5,000.

Description: The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 authorizes grants to Federally recognized Indian tribes for cultural and historic preservation projects. These grants assist Indian Tribes, Alaskan Natives, and Native Hawaiian Organizations in protecting and promoting their unique cultural heritage and traditions. From the beginning, the program has been shaped by Indian tribes. It focuses on what they are most concerned with protecting - Native language, oral history, plant and animal species important in tradition, sacred and historic places, and the establishment of tribal historic preservation offices. Grants will be awarded in the following five categories: Locating and Identifying Cultural Resources; Preserving a Historic Property listed on the National Register; Comprehensive Preservation Planning; Oral History and Documenting Cultural Traditions; and Education and Training for Building a Historic Preservation Program.

National Science Foundation
201 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22230
Phone: 703-292-5111
Email: info@nsf.gov
Deadline: Deadlines vary by program area.
Funding: Funding levels vary by program area.

Description: The National Science Foundation (NSF) funds research and education in most fields of science and engineering. It does this through grants, and cooperative agreements to more than 2,000 colleges, universities, K-12 school systems, businesses, informal science organizations and other research organizations throughout the United States. Most NSF funding opportunities are divided into broad program areas: Biology, Computer and Information Sciences, Crosscutting Programs, Education, Engineering, Geosciences, International, Math and Physical Sciences, Polar Research, Science and Statistics and Social and Behavioral Science.

National Telecommunications and Information Administration
Public Telecommunications Facilities Program, Room 4625
National Telecommunications and Information Administration
U.S. Department of Commerce
1401 Constitution Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20230
Phone: 202-482-5802
Fax: 202-482-2156
Email: ptfp@ntia.doc.gov
Deadline: Check for applications being accepted for FY07.
Funding: Funding levels vary by type of funding.

Description: Public Telecommunications Facilities Program (PTFP) is a competitive grant program to help construct facilities to bring educational and cultural programs to the American public using broadcasting and non broadcasting telecommunications technologies. The program has also funded radio reading services and descriptive video services for the disabled and numerous distance learning facilities that provide instructional programming for students and professionals.

Native Hawaiian Education
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
U.S. Department of Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW, Rm 3W230-FOB-6
Washington, D.C. 20202-6132
Phone: 202-260-1091
Deadline:Check for applications being accepted for FY07.
Funding: Funding levels vary by type of funding.
Type of funding: Discretionary/Competitive Grants

Description: To support innovative projects to provide supplemental services that address the educational needs of Native Hawaiian children and adults.

Native American and Alaska Native Children in School Program
Office of English Language Acquisition
US Department of Education
400 Maryland Ave, SW
Washington, DC 20202
Phone: 202-245-7140
Fax: 202-245-7166
Email: cynthia.ryan@ed.gov
Deadline: Check for applications being accepted for FY07.
Funding: Funding levels vary.
Type of funding: Discretionary/Competitive

Description: This program provides grants to eligible entities that support language instruction educational projects for limited English proficient (LEP) children from Native American, Alaska Native, native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander backgrounds. The program is designed to ensure that LEP children master English and meet the same rigorous standards for academic achievement that all children are expected to meet, including meeting challenging State academic content and student academic achievement standards and to support, to the extent possible, the native language skills of such children. Funds may support the study of Native American languages.

Preschool Grants for Children with Disabilities
U.S. Department of Education, OSERS
Office of Special Education Programs
400 Maryland Avenue, SW, Rm. 4176, PCP
Washington, DC 20202-2600
Phone: 202-245-7553
Fax: 202-245-7614
Deadline: Check for applications being accepted for FY07.
Funding: Funding levels vary by type of funding.
Type of funding: Formula Grant

Description: This program provides grants to states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico to make special education and related services available to children, ages 3 through 5, with disabilities.

Ready to Teach
U.S. Department of Education
Technology in Education Programs
400 Maryland Avenue, SW, FB-6, Rm 4W250
Washington, DC 20202
Phone: 202-205-5880
Fax: 202-205-5720
Deadline: Check for applications being accepted for FY07.
Funding: Funding levels vary by type of funding.
Type of funding: Discretionary/Competitive Grants

Description: The purpose is to carry out a national telecommunications-based program to improve teaching in core curriculum areas. The program is designed to assist elementary and secondary school teachers in preparing all students to achieve challenging state academic content and student academic achievement standards in core curriculum areas. The program also authorizes digital education programming grants for the development and distribution of innovative educational video programming.

Rural and Low Income School Program
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202
Phone: 202-401-0039
Deadline: Check for applications being accepted for FY07.
Type of funding: Formula Grants

Description: The program is designed to address the needs of rural, low-income schools. The Secretary awards formula grants to State educational agencies (SEAs), which in turn award sub-grants to eligible LEAs either competitively or on a formula basis. The funds are to be used to carry out activities specified by the statute.

Safe Schools Healthy Students
U.S. Department of Education, OSDFS
400 Maryland Avenue, SW, Rm. 3E339, FB-6
Washington, DC 20202
Phone: 202-260-3954
Fax: 202-260-7767
Deadline: Check for applications being accepted for FY07.
Funding: Funding levels vary by type of funding.
Type of funding: Discretionary/Competitive Grants

Description: The initiative is a discretionary grant program supported by the U.S. Departments of Education, Health and Health Services, and Justice, which provides students, schools, and communities with federal funding to implement an enhanced, coordinated, comprehensive plan of activities, programs, and services that focus on promoting healthy childhood development and preventing violence and alcohol and other drug abuse.

School Leadership Program
U.S. Department of Education
Teacher Quality Programs
400 Maryland Avenue, SW, FB-6, Rm 4W226
Washington, DC 20202
Phone: 202-260-2614
Fax: 202-401-8466
Deadline: Check for applications being accepted for FY07.
Funding: Funding levels vary by type of funding.
Type of funding: Discretionary/Competitive Grants

Description: The program provides competitive grants to assist high-need local educational agencies (LEAs) with recruiting, training, and retaining principals and assistant principals. A high-need LEA is defined as one that: (1) either serves at least 10,000 children from low-income families or serves a community in which at least 20 percent of children are from low-income families; and (2) has a high percentage of teachers teaching either outside of their certification or with emergency, provisional, or temporary certification.

Smaller Learning Communities Program
Office of Vocational and Adult Education
550 12th Street, SW, Room 11064
Washington, DC 20202
Phone: 202-245-7770
Fax: 202-245-7170
Deadline: Check for applications being accepted for FY07.
Funding: Funding levels vary by type of funding.
Type of funding: Discretionary/Competitive Grants

Description: Provide LEAs with funds to plan, implement or expand smaller learning communities in large high schools of 1,000 students or more (the goal is no more than 600 students in a learning community). Strategies may include creating schools within schools, career academies, restructuring the school day, instituting personal adult advocates, developing teacher advisory systems and other innovations designed to create a more personalized high school experience for students and improve student achievement and performance.

Special Education - Parent Information Centers
U.S. Department of Education, OSERS
Office of Special Education Programs
400 Maryland Avenue, SW, Rm. 4065, PCP
Washington, DC 20202-2500
Phone: 202-245-7329
Fax: 202-245-7618
Deadline: Check for applications being accepted for FY07.
Funding: Funding levels vary by type of funding.
Type of funding: Discretionary/Competitive Grants, Contracts, Cooperative Agreements

Description: This program is designed to ensure that parents of children with disabilities receive training and information to help them improve educational outcomes for their children. Awards are made for parent information centers, community parent centers, and for technical assistance to such centers.

Special Education--Technical Assistance and Dissemination to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities
U.S. Department of Education, OSERS
Office of Special Education Programs
400 Maryland Avenue, SW, Rm. 4098, PCP
Washington, DC 20202-2600
Phone: 202-245-7291
Fax: 202-245-7617
Deadline: Check for applications being accepted for FY07.
Funding: Funding levels vary by type of funding.
Type of funding: Discretionary/Competitive Grants, Contracts, Cooperative Agreements

Description: This program provides technical assistance and disseminates information that supports states and local entities in building capacity to improve early intervention, education, transitional services, and results for children with disabilities and their families. The program also supports efforts to identify and overcome systemic barriers to improving these services.

Stars School Program
U.S. Department of Education
Office of Innovation and Improvement
Technology in Education Programs FB-6, Room 4W219
Washington, DC 20202
Phone: 202-205-5633
Fax: 202-205-5720
Deadline: Check for applications being accepted for FY07.
Funding: Funding levels vary by type of funding.
Type of funding: Discretionary/Competitive Grants

Description: This program provides technical assistance and disseminates information that supports states and local entities in building capacity to improve early intervention, education, transitional services, and results for children with disabilities and their families. The program also supports efforts to identify and overcome systemic barriers to improving these services.

Teacher Incentive Fund
U.S. Department of Education
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
Academic Improvement and Teacher Quality Programs
400 Maryland Ave., S.W., Rm. 3W229, FB-6
Washington, DC 20202
Phone: 202-205-5224
Fax: 202-205-4921
Deadline: Check for applications being accepted for FY07.
Type of funding: Discretionary/Competitive Grants

Description: This program supports efforts to develop and implement performance-based teacher and principal compensation systems in high-need schools. Goals include: Improving student achievement by increasing teacher and principal effectiveness; Reforming teacher and principal compensation systems so that teachers and principals are rewarded for increases in student achievement; Increasing the number of effective teachers teaching poor, minority, and disadvantaged students in hard-to-staff subjects; and Creating sustainable performance-based compensation systems. Performance-based compensation systems must consider gains in student academic achievement as well as classroom evaluations conducted multiple times during each school year among other factors and provide educators with incentives to take on additional responsibilities and leadership roles. Five percent of the funds for the grants is available for technical assistance, training, peer review of applications, program outreach, and evaluation activities. Funding Appropriation: $99,000,000; Number of New Awards Anticipated: 10–15; Average New Award: $8,000,000.

Teacher Quality Enhancement Grants
Teacher Quality Enhancement Grants Program
U.S. Department of Education, OPE
1990 K Street, N.W., Suite 7000
Washington, DC 20006-8500
Phone: 202-205-5633
Fax: 202-205-5720
Deadline: Check for applications being accepted for FY07.
Funding: Funding levels vary by type of funding.

Description: The initiative consists of three separate programs: Partnership Grants for Improving Teacher Preparation, State Grants, and Teacher Recruitment Grants. Partnership Grants for Improving Teacher Preparation will provide funds to partnerships among teacher preparation institutions, schools of arts and sciences, and local school districts in high-need areas. State Grants will encourage States to improve the quality of their teaching force. Teacher Recruitment Grants will support State and local efforts to recruit highly qualified teachers for high-need areas.

Tribally Controlled Postsecondary Vocational and Technical Institutions Programs
U.S. Department of Education, OVAE
Division of High School, Postsecondary and Career Education
400 Maryland Ave., SW, Rm. 11090, PCP
Washington, DC 20202
Phone: 202-245-7768
Fax: 202-245-7837
Email: paul.geib@ed.gov
Deadline: Check for applications being accepted for FY07.
Funding: Funding levels vary by request.
Type of funding: Discretionary/Competitive Grants

Description: The Tribally Controlled Postsecondary Vocational Institutions Program provides competitive grants for the operation and improvement of eligible institutions to ensure continued and expanded opportunities for Indian students. Eligible institutions include any tribally controlled postsecondary vocational and technical institutions that are also institutions of higher education. Applications must request funding in areas of career and technical education for which there is a demonstrated labor market need. Grant funds may be used to pay for costs associated with basic and special instruction, materials, student costs, administrative expenses, boarding costs, transportation, student services, daycare and family support programs for students and their families, and student stipends. Also, capital expenditures, including operations and maintenance, and minor improvements and repair, and physical plant maintenance costs for the conduct of the program may be provided by the grants, as well as costs associated with repair, upkeep, replacement, and upgrading of the instructional equipment.

Vocational Rehabilitation Services Projects For American Indians With Disabilities
U.S. Department of Education, OSERS
Rehabilitation Services Administration
400 Maryland Avenue, SW, Rm. 4037, PCP
Washington, DC 20202-2800
Phone: 202-245-7432
Fax: 202-245-7591
Deadline: Check for applications being accepted for FY07.
Funding: Funding levels vary by type of funding.
Type of funding: Discretionary/Competitive Grants

Description: The purpose of this program is to provide assistance to tribes to develop and provide vocational rehabilitation services, comparable to those provided by the state vocational rehabilitation agencies, to American Indians with disabilities living on or near a reservation. The program's goal is to enable these individuals to enter the workforce and regain or maintain employment. Vocational rehabilitation services are provided under an individualized plan for employment and may include native healing services.

Women's Educational Equity
U.S. Department of Education
Women's Educational Equity Program
400 Maryland Avenue, SW, FB-6, Rm 4W208
Washington, DC 20202
Phone: 202-260-0964
Fax: 202-205-5630
Deadline: Check for applications being accepted for FY07.
Funding: Funding levels vary by type of funding.
Type of funding: Discretionary/Competitive Grants, Contracts

Description: This program promotes educational equity for women and girls through competitive grants to public agencies, private nonprofit organizations, and individuals. The program designates most of its funding for local implementation of gender-equity policies and practices. Research, development, and dissemination activities may also be funded. Projects may be funded for up to four years. The program also provides financial assistance to enable educational agencies to meet the requirements of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.

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