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Foreign Language Assistance Program--Local Educational Agencies With Institutions of Higher Education CFDA 84.293A
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.
Purpose of Program:
The Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP) provides grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) for innovative model programs providing for the establishment, improvement, or expansion of foreign language study for elementary and secondary school students.
Under this competition, as required by Public Law 111-8 (the Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009), 5-year grants will be awarded to LEAs to work in partnership with one or more institutions of higher education (IHEs) to establish or expand articulated programs of study in languages critical to United States national security in order to enable successful students to achieve a superior level of proficiency in those languages.
In addition, an LEA that receives a grant under this program must use the funds to support programs that show promise of being continued beyond the grant period and demonstrate approaches that can be disseminated to and duplicated in other LEAs.
Projects supported under this program may also include a professional development component.
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number:
8 4. 293A.
Applications for grants under the Foreign Language Assistance Program--Local Educational Agencies with Institutions of Higher Education--CFDA Number 8 4. 293A must be submitted electronically using e-Application, accessible through the Department's e-Grants Web site at:
http://e-grants.ed.gov.
While completing your electronic application, you will be entering data online that will be saved into a database.
You may not e-mail an electronic copy of a grant application to us.
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.
Purpose of Program:
The Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP) provides grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) for innovative model programs providing for the establishment, improvement, or expansion of foreign language study for elementary and secondary school students.
Under this competition, as required by Public Law 111-8 (the Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009), 5-year grants will be awarded to LEAs to work in partnership with one or more institutions of higher education (IHEs) to establish or expand articulated programs of study in languages critical to United States national security in order to enable successful students to achieve a superior level of proficiency in those languages.
In addition, an LEA that receives a grant under this program must use the funds to support programs that show promise of being continued beyond the grant period and demonstrate approaches that can be disseminated to and duplicated in other LEAs.
Projects supported under this program may also include a professional development component.
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number:
8 4. 293A.
Applications for grants under the Foreign Language Assistance Program--Local Educational Agencies with Institutions of Higher Education--CFDA Number 8 4. 293A must be submitted electronically using e-Application, accessible through the Department's e-Grants Web site at:
http://e-grants.ed.gov.
While completing your electronic application, you will be entering data online that will be saved into a database.
You may not e-mail an electronic copy of a grant application to us.
Obtain Full Opportunity Text:
Foreign Language Assistance Program--Local Educational Agencies With Institutions of Higher Education CFDA 84.293A; Notice Inviting Applications for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 2009
Additional Information of Eligibility:
Eligible Applicants: LEAs, including charter schools that are considered LEAs under State law, in partnership with one or more institutions of higher education.
Full Opportunity Web Address:
Contact:
Agency Email Description:
Agency Email:
cynthia.ryan@ed.gov
Date Posted:
2009-04-21
Application Due Date:
2009-05-27
Archive Date:
2009-06-26
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