Assistance program
Ready-To-Learn Television
$205.5 Million committed in FY2018–FY2024
- Agency
- Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Education, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 84.295
- What it does
- To facilitate student academic achievement by developing educational programming and digital content, with accompanying educational support materials, for preschool and early elementary school children and their families.
- Who benefits
- Programming is to be made widely available, with support materials as appropriate, to young children (ages 2-8), their parents/caregivers, child care workers, and Head Start and Even Start providers.
- Who applies
- To be eligible to receive a grant, contract, or cooperative agreement, an entity shall be a public telecommunications entity that can demonstrate: 1. A capacity for the development and national distribution of educational and instructional television programming of high quality that is accessible by a large majority of disadvantaged preschool and elementary school children. 2. A capacity to contract with the producers of children’s television programming for the purpose of developing educational television programming of high quality. 3. A capacity, consistent with the entity’s mission and nonprofit nature, to negotiate such contracts in a manner that returns to the entity an appropriate share of any ancillary income from sales of any program-related products. 4. A capacity to localize programming and materials to meet specific State and local needs and to provide educational outreach at the local level.
- Authorized by
- Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended, Title IV, Part F, Subpart 4
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