Closed · HE125423R5000 · CFDA 12.556 · Discretionary

Grants to Military-Connected Local Educational Agencies for Academic and Support Programs and the World Language Advancement and Readiness Program

Federal grant opportunity posted by DoD Education Activity, cataloged on Grants.gov.

$500K-$2M
Award range
Closed
Status
April 7, 2023
Close date
40
Expected awards

The verdict

Grants to Military-Connected Local Educational Agencies for Academic and Support Programs and the World Language Advancement and Readiness Program is a closed discretionary listing from DoD Education Activity that offered $500,000 -- $2,000,000 across 40 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 8 other opportunities from DoD Education Activity.

$500K-$2M
award range
Closed
application status
40
expected awards
12.556
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

Grants to Military-Connected Local Educationa… is closed (last close April 7, 2023). Check the agency catalog for replacement NOFOs. DoD Education Activity still indexes 8 other opportunities here.

According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.

Deadline tracker

Application window closed

Closed April 7, 2023

Posted Jan 23 Closes Apr 7

Expected Awards

40

Instrument

Grant

Description

Broad Agency Announcement (known herein as Funding Opportunity Announcement) for the Military-Connected Local Educational Agencies for Academic and Support Programs (known herein as MCASP) and the World Language Advancement and Readiness Program (known herein as WLARP), Fiscal Year 2023.March 2, 2023 Pre-recorded Technical Assistance Webinars (https://dodeagrants.org/)April 7, 2023 Deadline for Transmittal of Applications, No Later than 11:59PM Eastern Standard TimeThe Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) seeks innovative applications that identify and implement evidence-based practices to meet the academic needs of the highly mobile military-connected students in their community and applications which establish, improve, or expand world language programs targeting elementary and secondary students. In addition, any local education agency (LEA) awarded a grant under this announcement must use the funds to support programs that can be continued beyond the grant period and demonstrate approaches that could be disseminated to and duplicated in other LEAs. Awarded projects must provide a written project narrative and a detail budget table which identifies which program (either MCASP or WLARP) the LEA is applying for funding to implement under this announcement. Additionally, all projects awarded under this funding opportunity must include a professional development component. DoDEA intends to award multiple grants, subject to the availability of funds. Each individual grant award will be a minimum of $500,000.00 and may be up to a maximum of $2,000,000, for a period of up to five (5) years.

Public-sector applicant lane · DoD Education Activity

Grants.gov lists only government / tribal / housing-authority applicant doors for Grants to Military-Connected Local Educationa… (Independent school districts). This is a public-sector corridor, not a general nonprofit open call. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Grant. Funding-activity code maps to Education (ED). This eligibility-code string dominates the DoD Education Activity book (8 peers, 89% of 9).

Code 05
Independent school districts

Codes are Grants.gov eligibility category values from the extract vintage 2026-08-10. Confirm the full eligibility statement on the official listing or the Grants.gov eligibility reference.

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Agency Contact

Thatsanee Schwarzmann, Grants Officer Jennifer Dailey-Perkins, Grant Program Manager Phone 571-372-6026

What to do next

Grants to Military-Connected Local Educationa… is closed; use the parent program and agency catalog for the next funding cycle.

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