The Department of Education (Department) is seeking applications for the 2023 Education Innovation and Research (EIR) program—Mid-phase Grants.
Donor Name: U.S. Department of Education
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/22/2023
Size of the Grant: $8,000,000
Grant Duration: Up to 60 months
Details:
The EIR program, established under section 4611 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as amended (ESEA), provides funding to create, develop, implement, replicate, or take to scale entrepreneurial, evidence-based, field-initiated innovations to improve student achievement and attainment for high need students; and to rigorously evaluate such innovations. The EIR program is designed to generate and validate solutions to persistent education challenges and to support the expansion of those solutions to serve substantially more students.
The central design element of the EIR program is its multi-tier structure that links the amount of funding an applicant may receive to the quality of the evidence supporting the efficacy of the proposed project. One of the program’s goals is for projects to build evidence that will allow them advance through EIR’s grant tiers: ‘‘Early-phase,’’ ‘‘Mid-phase,’’ and ‘‘Expansion.’’
Priorities
Absolute Priority
- Absolute Priority 1—Moderate Evidence Projects supported by evidence that meets the conditions in the definition of ‘‘moderate evidence.
- Absolute Priority 2—Field-Initiated Innovations—General Projects that are designed to create, develop, implement, replicate, or take to scale entrepreneurial, evidence-based, field-initiated innovations to improve student achievement and attainment for high-need students.
- Absolute Priority 3—Field-Initiated Innovations—Promoting Equity in Student Access to Educational Resources and Opportunities: STEM Projects that are designed to—
- Create, develop, implement, replicate, or take to scale entrepreneurial, evidence-based, field initiated innovations to improve student achievement and attainment for high need students; and
- Promote educational equity and adequacy in resources and opportunity for underserved students—
- In one or more of the following educational settings:
- Early learning programs.
- Elementary school.
- Middle school.
- High school.
- Career and technical education programs.
- Out-of-school-time settings.
- Alternative schools and programs.
- Juvenile justice system or correctional facilities; and
- Absolute Priority 4—Field-Initiated Innovations—Meeting Student Social, Emotional, and Academic Needs Projects that are designed to—
- Create, develop, implement, replicate, or take to scale entrepreneurial, evidence-based, field initiated innovations to improve student achievement and attainment for high need students; and
- Improve students’ social, emotional, academic, and career development, with a focus on underserved students, through one or more of the following priority areas:
- Developing and supporting educator and school capacity to support social and emotional learning and development that—
- Fosters skills and behaviors that enable academic progress;
- Identifies and addresses conditions in the learning environment, that may negatively impact social and emotional well-being for underserved students, including conditions that affect physical safety; and
- Is trauma-informed, such as addressing exposure to community based violence and trauma specific to military- or veteran-connected students (as defined in this notice).
- Absolute Priority 5—Field-Initiated Innovations—Promoting Equity in Student Access to Educational Resources and Opportunities: Educator Recruitment and Retention
Competitive Preference Priority
For FY 2023 and any subsequent year in which they make awards from the list of unfunded applications from this competition, this priority is a competitive preference priority. Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i), they award up to an additional 5 points to an application, depending on how well the application addresses the competitive preference priority The priority is: Promoting Equity in Student Access to Educational Resources and Opportunities: Implementers and Partners (up to 5 points). Under this priority, an applicant must demonstrate how the project will be implemented by or in partnership with one or more of the following entities:
- Community colleges (as defined in this notice).
- Historically Black colleges and universities (as defined in this notice).
- Tribal Colleges and Universities (as defined in this notice).
- Minority-serving institutions (as defined in this notice).
Funding Information
- Estimated Available Funds: $273,000,000.
- Estimated Average Size of Awards: Up to $8,000,000.
- Maximum Award: $8,000,000 for a project period of 60 months
Eligibility Criteria
- An LEA;
- An SEA;
- The Bureau of Indian Education (BIE);
- A consortium of SEAs or LEAs;
- A nonprofit organization; and
- An LEA, an SEA, the BIE, or a consortium described in clause (d), in partnership with–
- A nonprofit (as defined in this notice) organization;
- A business;
- An educational service agency; or
- An IHE.
- To qualify as a rural applicant under the EIR program, an applicant must meet both of the following requirements: The applicant is
- An LEA with an urban-centric district locale code of 32, 33, 41, 42, or 43, as determined by the Secretary;
- A consortium of such LEAs;
- An educational service agency or a nonprofit organization in partnership with such an LEA; or A grantee described in clause (1) or (2) in partnership with an SEA; and (b) A
- majority of the schools to be served by the program are designated with a locale code of 32, 33, 41, 42, or 43, or a combination of such codes, as determined by the Secretary.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
