Opportunity Information: Apply for ED GRANTS 051917 001
This grant opportunity, offered by the U.S. Department of Education under OSERS and the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), funds the creation and operation of a national technical assistance center focused on improving services and results for children with disabilities. The center is intended to help education systems build the real-world conditions that allow educators and leaders to adopt, implement, and sustain instructional and leadership practices that are supported by evidence, as defined in the official Federal Register notice. Rather than funding direct student services, the emphasis is on strengthening the capacity of state and local systems so effective, research-backed practices are used consistently and at scale, leading to better educational outcomes for students with disabilities.
The award is structured as a cooperative agreement, meaning the federal government expects to be actively involved in shaping and monitoring the work, not simply issuing funds and stepping back. The center would provide technical assistance directly to States, educational service agencies (ESAs), local educational agencies (LEAs), and charter management organizations operating in those States. In practical terms, this suggests hands-on support aimed at systems change: helping agencies remove barriers to implementation, align policies and procedures, develop leadership practices, improve professional learning structures, and create supports that make evidence-based practices more likely to be used correctly and continuously over time. The notice also highlights that the center must provide support to other Department-funded technical assistance centers, which signals an expectation of coordination across federally funded TA efforts so that guidance to the field is consistent and mutually reinforcing.
A notable component of the scope is the center's role in supporting organizations that prepare district superintendents. This reflects a focus on leadership pipelines and the idea that sustainable implementation of evidence-based practice depends heavily on district-level leadership capacity. By engaging superintendent preparation organizations, the center would be expected to influence how future district leaders learn to select, implement, and sustain evidence-supported approaches, including how they create enabling conditions across staffing, professional development, data use, and organizational routines.
Administratively, this is a discretionary funding opportunity (not a formula grant), with an expected single award. The opportunity is identified as CFDA 84.326K (searchable on Grants.gov as 84.326 without the letter suffix). The funding opportunity number is ED GRANTS 051917 001. The anticipated award ceiling is $1,100,000, and the posting indicates one expected award, meaning the Department planned to fund one national center through this competition. The application window listed in the synopsis opened May 19, 2017, with applications due July 3, 2017.
Eligibility is broad and includes multiple categories of applicants that commonly operate national centers or provide large-scale technical assistance. Eligible applicants include state, county, and local governments; special district governments; independent school districts; public and private institutions of higher education; federally recognized tribal governments and other tribal organizations; nonprofit organizations with or without 501(c)(3) status (other than institutions of higher education); for-profit organizations other than small businesses; and other entities as clarified in the official notice. This wide eligibility is consistent with a competition aimed at selecting a single national operator with strong capacity to provide technical assistance across multiple states and education agencies.
Applications were required to be submitted electronically through Grants.gov. Applicants were expected to download the application package, complete it offline, and upload it for submission through the Grants.gov portal; submission by email was explicitly not permitted. The synopsis repeatedly points applicants back to the official Federal Register notice for the authoritative requirements and details, including eligibility nuances, priorities, required activities, performance measures, submission instructions, and program contacts. In other words, the summary captures the intent and broad structure, but the Federal Register notice governs what an applicant must propose and how the work would be evaluated.Apply for ED GRANTS 051917 001
- The Department of Education in the education sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OSERS: OSEP: Technical Assistance and Dissemination To Improve Services and Results for Children With Disabilities: National Center To Enhance Educational Systems To Promote the Use of Practices Supported by Evidence CFDA Number 84.326K" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 84.326.
- This funding opportunity was created on May 19, 2017.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 03, 2017 Applications Available May 19, 2017. Deadline for Transmittal of Applications July 3, 2017.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,100,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, For profit organizations other than small businesses, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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