Competitive Grants

Alabama

Nita M. Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Centers

Due Date: January 24, 2025
Grant Range: Up to $500,000 per Cohort

• Provide opportunities for academic enrichment, including providing tutorial services to help students who attend low-performing schools and to meet the challenging state academic standards.
• Offer students a broad array of additional services, programs, and activities.
• Offer families of students served by community learning centers opportunities for active and meaningful engagement in their children’s education.

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Arizona

Nita M. Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Centers

Deadline: March 3, 2025
Grant Range: $50,000–$120,000

• Provide opportunities for academic enrichment, including providing tutorial services to help students who attend low-performing schools and to meet the challenging state academic standards.
  
• Offer students a broad array of additional services, programs, and activities.
  
• Offer families of students served by community learning centers opportunities for active and meaningful engagement in their children’s education.
  
   

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Arkansas

Nita M. Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Centers 

Deadline: January 31, 2025
Grant Range: $200,000 per Awardee for the First Year

• The grant implementation is for four years and supports the creation or expansion of community learning centers that provide academic enrichment during non-school hours for children.
• The program targets students who attend high-poverty and low-performing schools.
• This program helps students meet state and local standards in core academic subjects.

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Arkansas

Professional Learning Grant

Deadline: January 31, 2025
Grant Range: LEA’s Received Allocated Amounts

• DESE is distributing professional learning community funding to improve academic outcomes.
• Grant funds districts to support the implementation of Arkansas LEARNS through professional learning communities.
• Grant goals: Establish professional learning communities focused on the areas of (1) Foundational Literacy/Science of Reading and (2) Strengthening Instructional Quality.

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Georgia

Nita M. Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Centers

• This grant supports the creation of community learning centers that provide academic enrichment opportunities during non-school hours for children.
• The program helps students meet state and local academic standards in core academic subjects, such as reading and mathematics.
• The program offers students a broad array of enrichment activities that can complement their regular academic programs.

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Louisiana

The Comprehensive Literacy State Development (CLSD) Grant

Due Date: January 23, 2025
Grant Range: TBD 

• The Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) will support literacy efforts for students, teachers, and schools most in need.
• The LDOE will target the five-year grant toward four main focus areas:
  • Building teacher and leader capacity around evidence-based practices in the most struggling schools and systems
  • Providing targeted capacity and resources for schools serving high rates of the highest-need students
  • Ensuring every child has access to a highly effective teacher by providing literacy mentors to new teachers within three years of service in schools with high teacher turnover and/or high numbers of new teachers
  • Implementing high-quality, evidence-based practices, interventions, and opportunities to support children and families
    
     

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North Carolina

Nita M. Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Centers

Deadline: TBD
Grant Range: $50,000–$500,000

• Provide opportunities for academic enrichment, including providing tutorial services to help students who attend low-performing schools and to meet the challenging state academic standards.
• Offer students a broad array of additional services, programs, and activities.
• Offer families of students served by community learning centers opportunities for active and meaningful engagement in their children’s education.
  
   

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