Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE): FY 2020 Education Stabilization Fund: Reimagine Workforce Preparation (ESF-RWP) Grants Program CFDA Number 84.425G

SUMMARY: On June 23, 2020, the Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education published in the Federal Register a notice inviting applications (NIA) for new awards for fiscal year (FY) 2020 for the ESF-RWP Grants Program, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) number 84.425G. We are correcting the information regarding eligible entities for the ESF-RWP grant program to indicate that the applicant must be either a State Workforce Board that is a State agency or entity with the authority to apply for, receive, and administer ESF-RWP funds; or a State agency or entity that is designated by the State Workforce Board to apply for, receive, and administer ESF-RWP funds. All other information in the NIA, including the August 24, 2020, deadline for transmittal of applications, remains the same. DATES: This correction is applicable July 21, 2020. -

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.

For the addresses for obtaining and submitting an application, please refer to our Common Instructions for Applicants to Department of Education Discretionary Grant Programs, published in the Federal Register on February 13, 2019 (84 FR 3768),or at www.govinfo.gov/​content/​pkg/​FR-2019-02-13/​pdf/​2019-02206.pdf.

Purpose of Program: The purpose of the ESF-RWP Grants program is to provide support to help States with the highest coronavirus[1] burden create or expand short-term education and training opportunities and/or or career pathways programs that help citizens return to work, become entrepreneurs, or expand their small businesses (as described under Absolute Priority 1); or to enable States to create or expand small business incubators that offer education and training, mentorship, as well as shared facilities and resources that will help small businesses recover and grow and new entrepreneurs thrive (as described under Absolute Priority 2).

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) number 84.425G.

[1] See CARES Act, Sec. 18001(a)(3)