Closed · ED-GRANTS-031423-001 · CFDA 84.215 · Discretionary

Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Well-Rounded Education Programs: Innovative Approaches to Literacy (IAL) Program, Assistance Listing Number 84.215G

Federal grant opportunity posted by Department of Education, cataloged on Grants.gov.

Varies
Award range
Closed
Status
May 15, 2023
Close date
20
Expected awards

The verdict

Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Well-Rounded Education Programs: Innovative Approaches to Literacy (IAL) Program, Assistance Listing Number 84.215G is a closed discretionary listing from Department of Education that offered Varies by applicant across 20 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 1,672 other opportunities from Department of Education.

Varies
award range
Closed
application status
20
expected awards
84.215
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

Office of Elementary and Secondary Education is closed (last close May 15, 2023). The parent program page for CFDA 84.215 is the reliable place to catch re-announcements. Department of Education still indexes 1,672 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 May 15, 2023

Posted Mar 14 Closes May 15

Est. Total Funding

$9,000,000

Expected Awards

20

Instrument

Grant

Description

Note: Each funding opportunity description is a synopsis of information in the Federal Register application notice. For specific information about eligibility, please see the official application notice. The official version of this document is the document published in the Federal Register. Free Internet access to the official edition of the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations is available on GPO Access at: http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/index.html. Please review the official application notice for pre-application and application requirements, application submission information, performance measures, priorities and program contact information. For the addresses for obtaining and submitting an application, please refer to our Revised Common Instructions for Applicants to Department of Education Discretionary Grant Programs, published in the Federal Register on December 7, 2022. Purpose of Program: The IAL 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 (LEAs) and schools. IAL promotes innovative literacy programs that support the development of literacy skills in low-income communities, including programs that (1) develop and enhance effective school library programs, which may include providing professional development for school librarians, books, and up-to-date materials to high-need schools; (2) provide early literacy services, including pediatric literacy programs through which, during well-child visits, medical providers trained in research-based methods of early language and literacy promotion provide developmentally appropriate books and recommendations to parents to encourage them to read aloud to their children starting in infancy; and (3) provide high-quality books on a regular basis to children and adolescents from low-income communities to increase reading motivation, performance, and frequency. Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 84.215G.

Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · ED-GRANTS-031423-001

Grants.gov marks Office of Elementary and Secondary Education with a catch-all / unrestricted eligibility code (Others (see official listing text)). Read the official announcement text for the real applicant filter — the code alone is not a door list. 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 Department of Education book (658 peers, 39% of 1,673).

Code 25
Others (see official listing text)

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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Parent Grant Program

CFDA 84.215

Fund for the Improvement of Education

U.S. Department of Education

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Agency Contact

Julius C Cotton ED Grants.gov FIND Systems Admin. Phone 202-245-6288 julius.cotton@ed.gov Program Manager: Simon Earle, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW, room 3E254, Washington, DC 20202-6450. Telephone: (202) 453-7923. Email: Simon.Earle@ed.gov.

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Institute of Education Sciences (IES): National Center for Education Research (NCER): Statistical and Research Methodology in Education, Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 84.305D

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Open Closes October 1, 2026

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What to do next

Office of Elementary and Secondary Education is closed; use the parent program and agency catalog for the next funding cycle.

  • Parent CFDA 84.215 may publish future NOFOs under the same assistance listing. Open program
  • Fund for the Improvement of Education indexes 0 Grants.gov listings in this extract. Program profile
  • Department of Education lists 1,672 other indexed opportunities on PlainGrants. Agency catalog

Opportunity deadlines and eligibility change on Grants.gov; PlainGrants mirrors the extract and is not the submission system.

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Data sourced from the SAM.gov Assistance Listings and Grants.gov. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainGrants