Assistance program
Innovative Approaches to Literacy; Promise Neighborhoods; Full-Service Community Schools; and Congressionally Directed Spending for Elementary and Secondary Education Community Projects
$1.7 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Education, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants (Contracts)
- CFDA number
- 84.215
- What it does
- The Innovative Approaches to Literacy program supports high-quality programs designed to develop and improve literacy skills for children and students from birth through 12th grade in high-need local educational agencies and schools. The Promise Neighborhoods program supports distressed communities in improving the academic and developmental outcomes for children, youth, and their families from birth through college. The Full-Service Community Schools supports the planning, implementation, and operation of full-service community schools that improve the coordination, integration, accessibility, and effectiveness of services for children and families, particularly for children attending high-poverty schools, including high-poverty rural schools. Congressionally Directed Spending for Elementary and Secondary Education Community Projects provides grants to entities identified in explanatory statements accompanying appropriation acts for the purposes described therein, providing a variety of education services.
- Who benefits
- Local educational agencies, institutions of higher education, Indian tribes or tribal organizations, public and private organizations and institutions will benefit.
- Who applies
- Local educational agencies, the Bureau of Indian Education, institutions of higher education, Indian tribes or tribal organizations, public and private organizations and institutions may apply.
- Authorized by
- Innovative Approaches to Literacy - Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965), as amended (ESEA), Title II, Part B, Subpart 2, Section 2226. Promise Neighborhoods.
- ESEA, Title IV, Part F, Subpart 2, Section 4624. Full-Service Community Schools
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.
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