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Publication Date - 12/3/1999

39. U.S. ED/OBEMLA - Bilingual Education: Comprehensive School Grants

The U.S. Department of Education's (U.S. ED) Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Affairs (OBEMLA) has announced the availability of grants under its Bilingual Education: Comprehensive School Grants Program (CFDA No. 84.290U). The purpose of this program is to provide grants to implement schoolwide bilingual education programs or special alternative instruction programs for reforming, restructuring, and upgrading all relevant programs and operations, within an individual school, that serve all or virtually all limited English proficient (LEP) children and youth in one or more schools with significant concentrations of these children and youth.

The following absolute priority applies to this program:

Projects that serve only schools in which the number of LEP students, in each school served, equals at least 25 percent of the total student enrollment.

Institutions of higher education (IHEs) must collaborate with local educational agencies (LEAs). LEAs must submit the application. It is estimated that 100 awards ranging from $150,000 to $275,000 will be made for project periods of 60 months. The deadline for applications is JANUARY 14, 2000.

(NOTE: The federal government requires that this program receive state clearinghouse review.)

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