Assistance Listing 84.255

The Department of Education administered CFDA 84.255 for literacy programs serving prisoners through state and local correctional facilities, with the most recent grant award dated July 1, 2006.

This program is inactive. No grant awards have been disbursed in the past 20 years. The portfolio reflects 26 Project Grants awarded between October 2003 and July 2006, with funding concentrated in two cycles: 13 awards in fiscal 2003 and 11 awards in fiscal 2006, separated by a two-award cycle in fiscal 2005. The Department of Education was the sole funding agency, obligating $9.9 million in federal dollars across all awards, with recipients contributing an additional $300 thousand in non-federal match.

All 26 awards funded identical scope: life skills literacy programming for state and local prisoners. Representative awards from the 2006 cycle ranged from $324 thousand to $474 thousand per grant. The 2003 cycle awards ranged from $184 thousand to $680 thousand, with Project Grant Q255A030007 the largest single award at $680,080.

No grant opportunities are currently posted under this Assistance Listing. The program has not released a solicitation or awarded new funding since 2006. The source provides no evidence of recent program activity, planned reactivation, or open application windows.