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What is the purpose of this program?
This program provides financial assistance for the planning, design, initial implementation and dissemination of information on charter schools created by teachers, parents, and other members of local communities.
How can these funds be used?
Projects funded under this program may provide for one or more of the following:
- States--and specifically their SEAs-- are eligible to compete for grants if they have a charter school law in place.
- The SEAs subgrant the funds to eligible applicants to provide financial assistance for the planning, program design, and initial implementation of charter schools.
- To support the dissemination of information about, and successful practices in, high quality charter schools.
What are the eligibility requirements?
While exact eligibility requirements are determined by the participating SEAs and vary from state to state, grants are made to authorized public chartering agencies in partnership with local developers of charter schools.
What is the application or allocation process?
Grants are available to SEAs on a competitive basis. SEAs then make subgrants to authorized public chartering agencies. SEAs establish guidelines for how the funds are to be distributed.
Contact your state department of education to learn more about the application process, timelines, eligibility requirements, and when funds are disbursed. Typically, announcements of the competition are made in winter, awards are made in the spring, and funds are made available to successful candidates in the early summer.
If a SEA does not participate, eligible local partnerships may apply directly to ED.
Application Deadline:
02/19/2004
Funding Process for Schools:
Competitive grants
Total FY 2004 Funding:
$200 million
Office of Innovation and Improvement
This information also appears at the US Department of Education:
http://www.ed.gov/programs/charter/index.html
Authorizing Legislation:
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended, Title V, Part B, Subpart 1
Name: Dean Kern
Phone: (202) 260-1882
Email: Dean.Kern@ed.gov
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