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What is the purpose of this program?
FIE provides authority for the secretary to support nationally significant programs to improve the quality of elementary and secondary education at the state and local levels and help all students meet challenging state academic content standards and student achievement standards.
How can these funds be used?
Some types of programs that may be supported include:
· Activities to promote systemic education reform at the state and local levels, including scientifically based research, development, and evaluation designed to improve student academic achievement at the state and local levels and strategies for effective parent and community involvement.
· Programs at the state and local levels that are designed to yield significant results, including programs to explore approaches to public school choice and school-based decision-making.
· Recognition programs, including financial awards to states, local education agencies, and schools that have made the greatest progress in improving the academic achievement of economically disadvantaged students and students from major racial and ethnic minority groups and in closing the academic achievement gap for those groups of students farthest away from the proficient level on the academic assessments administered by the state.
· Scientifically based studies and evaluations of education reform strategies and innovations and the dissemination of information on the effectiveness of those strategies and innovations.
What are the eligibility requirements?
The Fund for the Improvement of Education (FIE) supports "Programs of National Significance." Eligible applicants are SEAs and LEAs, institutions of higher education, and other public and private agencies, organization and institutions (including nonprofit organizations and for-profit organizations). In recent years, most of the available funds have been for entities and projects identified by Congress in the appropriation legislation. Very little funding has been available for other types of projects, identified by the Secretary, as nationally significant activities.
What is the application or allocation process?
Entities identified by Congress in the appropriation legislation are contacted directly by the Program Office. Competitions will be listed on the Department of Education's website at: http://www.ed.gov/fund/grant/find/edlite-forecast.html. However, the program does not anticipate conducting a competition in fiscal year 2004.
Total FY 2004 Funding:
$245,715,000
Office of Innovation and Improvement
This information also appears at the US Department of Education:
http://www.ed.gov/programs/fie/index.html
Authorizing Legislation:
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended, Title V, Part D, Subpart 1, 20 U.S.C. 7243
Name: Beverly Farrar
Phone: (202) 219-1301
Email: beverly.farrar@ed.gov
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