Closed · DOL-OESE-34043 · CFDA 84.424 · Discretionary

Career Pathways Exploration Grant Program 84.424J

Federal grant opportunity posted by Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, cataloged on Grants.gov.

up to $9M
Award range
Closed
Status
June 9, 2026
Close date
10
Expected awards

The verdict

Career Pathways Exploration Grant Program 84.424J is a closed discretionary listing from Office of Elementary and Secondary Education that offered Up to $9,000,000 across 10 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 10 other opportunities from Office of Elementary and Secondary Education.

up to $9M
award range
Closed
application status
10
expected awards
84.424
CFDA program

Recently closed NOFO

This listing closed on June 9, 2026. Watch CFDA 84.424 (Mental Health Service Professional Demonstration Program) for the next funding cycle. Historical award band was Up to $9,000,000.

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

Deadline tracker

Application window closed

Closed June 9, 2026

Posted May 7 Closes Jun 9

Est. Total Funding

$44,000,000

Expected Awards

10

Instrument

Grant

Description

The Career Pathways Exploration (CPE) program supports efforts to provide elementary and secondary school students with increased career exploration opportunities that allow them to develop, expand, and prioritize the skills and knowledge needed to excel in high-demand fields. To support this goal, the CPE program provides competitive grants to States to build their capacity to integrate career exploration into statewide career pathways and workforce readiness programs. The CPE program will help ensure access to opportunities that expose students to real-life workforce realities through a variety of career pathways programs that are aligned with State workforce priorities.In support of returning education to the States, ED believes this program is uniquely suited for State applicants. State applicants, as designated or endorsed by the Governors, are best positioned to coordinate K-12 career exploration initiatives that integrate education, workforce, and economic development systems. The CPE program is designed to allow Governors, in coordination with State agencies and their local educational agencies (LEAs), to align career exploration opportunities for schools with real-time labor market needs to create statewide opportunities for students to explore careers early, scale access to learning and employment records (LERs) and talent marketplaces, and align with local workforce boards and system partners so students can act on the knowledge gained in a meaningful way.State applicants are encouraged to align proposed activities with the State"s Unified or Combined Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) State Plan to ensure coherence with broader workforce development strategies and labor market priorities.This program is being established with funds from the two percent reservation for technical assistance and capacity building under section 4103(a)(3) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended, 20 U.S.C. § 6301 (ESEA), which is intended to support State educational agencies and LEAs in carrying out activities authorized under the Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grants program in title IV, part A of the ESEA through technical assistance and capacity building. Specifically, the CPE program is intended to help build the capacity of States and LEAs to provide well-rounded educational opportunities, consistent with the description of such opportunities in ESEA section 4107, through initiatives that make career pathways exploration programs broadly available to students. In support of this goal, grantees will share with other States and LEAs how career pathways exploration initiatives can be successfully implemented.

Public-sector applicant lane · Office of Elementary and Secondary Education

Grants.gov lists only government / tribal / housing-authority applicant doors for Career Pathways Exploration Grant Program 84.… (State governments). 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). 1 other Office of Elementary and Secondary Education listings share this eligibility-code string (9% of 11).

Code 00
State governments

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Parent Grant Program

CFDA 84.424

Mental Health Service Professional Demonstration Program

U.S. Department of Education

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Agency Contact

Ivonne Jaime careerpathways@ed.gov

What to do next

Career Pathways Exploration Grant Program 84.… is closed; use the parent program and agency catalog for the next funding cycle.

  • Parent CFDA 84.424 may publish future NOFOs under the same assistance listing. Open program
  • Mental Health Service Professional Demonstrat… indexes 0 Grants.gov listings in this extract. Program profile
  • Office of Elementary and Secondary Education lists 10 other indexed opportunities on PlainGrants. Agency catalog

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