Assistance program
Secondary Education, Two-Year Postsecondary Education, and Agriculture in the K-12 Classroom
$11.3 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 10.226
- What it does
- The Secondary Education, Two-Year Postsecondary Education, and Agriculture in the K-12 Classroom Challenge Grants (SPECA) program seeks to: (a) promote and strengthen secondary education and two-year postsecondary education in the food and agriculture sciences in order to help ensure the existence of a workforce in the United States that's qualified to serve the food and agriculture sciences system; and (b) promote complementary and synergistic linkages among secondary, two-year postsecondary, and higher education programs in the food and agriculture sciences in order to advance excellence in education and encourage more young Americans to pursue and complete a baccalaureate or higher degree in the food and agriculture sciences.
- Who benefits
- Public secondary schools or public or private nonprofit junior and community colleges.
- Who applies
- Public secondary schools or public or private nonprofit junior and community colleges.
- Authorized by
- 7 U.S.C. § 3152 (j)
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
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- Committed through this program
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- Awards, counted once
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- The colored bars
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Direct payments