Department of Education

Description

•Note: Each funding opportunity description is a synopsis of information in the Federal Register application notice. For specific information about eligibility, please see the official application notice. The official version of this document is the document published in the Federal Register. Free Internet access to the official edition of the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations is available on GPO Access at: http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/index.html Purpose of Program: The AP Test Fee program awards grants to eligible State educational agencies (SEAs) to enable them to pay all or a portion of advanced placement test fees on behalf of eligible low-income students who (1) are enrolled in an advanced placement course and (2) plan to take an advanced placement exam. The program is designed to increase the number of low-income students who take advanced placement tests and receive scores for which college academic credit is awarded. Applications for grants under the AP Test Fee Program, CFDA Number 84.330B, must be submitted electronically using e-Application, accessible through the Department's e-Grants Web site at: http://e-grants.ed.gov. While completing your electronic application, you will be entering data online that will be saved into a database. You may not e-mail an electronic copy of a grant application to us. You must complete the electronic submission of your grant application by 4:30:00 p.m., Washington, DC time, on the application deadline date. E-Application will not accept an application for this program after 4:30:00 p.m., Washington, DC time, on the application deadline date. The telephone number for the Grants.gov Helpdesk is 1800-518-4726 or e-mail: support@grants.gov.

Who can apply

• State governments

Contact

Julius C. Cotton, Jr., Esq. <br/>Management Analyst <br/>Telephone: 202 245-6140 <br/>Julius.Cotton@ed.gov <br/>Program Manager: <br/>Francisco Ramirez <br/>U.S. Department of Education <br/>400 Maryland Avenue, SW., Room 3E224, Washington, DC 20202-6200 <br/>Telephone: (202) 260-1541 or by e-mail: <br/> <br/>
francisco.ramirez@ed.gov