Project Grant U411A180001

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded a $261,000 Project Grant on September 1, 2024 to the Rural Alaska Community Action Program Inc. (Rural Cap) under the Innovative Approaches to Literacy; Promise Neighborhoods; Full-Service Community Schools; and Congressionally Directed Spending for Elementary and Secondary Education Community Projects program (CFDA 84.215). The award will fund Rural Cap's "Open Doors to Welcome More Families"...

This federal Project Grant award of $724,148 from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) under the Education Research, Development and Dissemination program (CFDA 84.305) will support a research study to evaluate the impact of implementing the First-Grade Reading Peer Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS FG) program in kindergarten classrooms. The study, conducted by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) in partnership with the University of Texas Rio...

The American Institutes For Research (AIR) was awarded a $4.4 million project grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Education Innovation and Research program (CFDA 84.411) to implement the READY, SET, SUCCEED (RSS): KINDERGARTEN TRANSITIONS IN FLINT project. The five-year project aims to improve student achievement and attainment for high-need students through evidence-based interventions designed to support kindergarten...

This Project Grant award of $541,500 from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (CFDA 84.215 - Innovative Approaches to Literacy; Promise Neighborhoods; Full-Service Community Schools; and Congressionally Directed Spending for Elementary and Secondary Education Community Projects) will support The Education Alliance's "4T Rural Expansion" initiative. Specifically, the funding will launch the "4T Academy" in Mason County Schools and...

This $2,000,000 federal Project Grant award under CFDA 84.215, Innovative Approaches to Literacy; Promise Neighborhoods; Full-Service Community Schools; and Congressionally Directed Spending for Elementary and Secondary Education Community Projects, was provided by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. The grant aims to enhance early childhood education workforce development in rural Nebraska through two key initiatives: The Nebraska Children and...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families has awarded a $4,706,101 five-year Project Grant (Grant ID: 05CH012929) to Lakes & Prairies Community Action Partnership, Inc., a non-profit organization based in Moorhead, Minnesota. The funding is provided through the Head Start federal grant program (CFDA 93.600) to support comprehensive early childhood education and development services for low-income pregnant women, infants, toddlers, and...

This $7,000,000 Project Grant award was provided by the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families under the Preschool Development Grants Birth through Five (PDG B-5) program (CFDA 93.434). The grant aims to assist the state of Kansas in enhancing its early childhood care and education system to better serve low-income and disadvantaged children. Key services to be delivered through this 36-month award, which began on September 30, 2024, include conducting...

The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families awarded a $1,911,980.00 Project Grant under the Head Start program (CFDA 93.600) to Unified School District 383, operating as the Board of Education through its Robinson Education Center Division, to provide comprehensive early childhood education and family support services in Kansas. The five-year grant, effective from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2029, will fund the district's Head Start and Early Head Start...

This $847,242 federal Project Grant award from the Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (CFDA 84.324 - Research in Special Education) supports a research project titled "Partnership to Build Teacher Capacity to Promote Early Language Learning in Infants and Toddlers with and at Risk for Disabilities". The primary awardee, the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc., will collaborate with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to document the efficacy...

This federal Project Grant award of $404,515 was provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to The Ohio State University. The grant aims to determine whether a media-based intervention targeting low-socioeconomic status (SES) preschoolers and their caregivers can improve children's early literacy skills, relative to a caregiver-led shared-reading intervention. The key...