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.Please review the official application notice for pre-application and application requirements, application submission information, performance measures, priorities and program contact information. Purpose of Program: The Smaller Learning Communities (SLC) program awards discretionary grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) to support the restructuring of large public high schools (i.e., schools with enrollments of 1,000 or more students) into smaller units for the purpose of improving academic achievement in large public high schools. These smaller units include freshman academies, multi-grade academies organized around career interests or other themes, ``houses'' in which small groups of students remain together throughout high school, and autonomous schools-within-a-school. These structural changes are typically complemented by other personalization strategies, such as student advisories, family advocate systems, and mentoring programs.Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.215L.Applications for grants under the Smaller Learning Communities Program--CFDA Number 84.215L 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. On June 23, 2010, we published in the Federal Register (75 FR 35894) a notice inviting applications for new awards using fiscal year (FY) 2009 funds for the Smaller Learning Communities Program. There are errors in two of the dates in that notice. We are correcting those dates in this notice. 1. On page 35896, third column, the deadline for the Notice of Intent to Apply is corrected to read ``July 15, 2010.'' 2. On page 35897, first column, under the heading Notice of Intent to Apply, the second sentence is removed and replaced with the following sentence: ``Therefore, we strongly encourage each potential applicant to send an e-mail notice of its intent to apply for funding by July 15, 2010.'' 3. On page 35897, first column, the deadline for the Transmittal of Applications is corrected to read ``August 6, 2010.''

Who can apply

• Others

Contact

Julius Cotton <br/>ED Grants.gov FIND Systems Admin. <br/>Phone 202-245-6140 <br/>julius.cotton@ed.gov <br/>Program Manager: <br/>Angela Hernandez-Marshall <br/>U.S. Department of Education <br/>400 Maryland Avenue, SW., room 3E308, <br/>Washington, DC 20202-6200 <br/>Telephone: 202-205-1909 or by e-mail:
smallerlearningcommunities@ed.gov