Education Innovation and Research Program-Early-Phase Grants
Solicitation Title: Education Innovation and Research Program-Early-Phase Grants
Funding Amount: Estimated Range of Awards: Early-phase grants: $700,000-$800,000 per year.
Estimated Average Size of Awards: Early-phase grants: $3,750,000 for the entirety of the project period.
Expansion grants: $14,500,000 for the entirety of the project period. Estimated Number of Awards:
Early-phase grants: 24-38 awards. Up to 60 months.
Sponsor Deadline: Thursday, April 13, 2017
Solicitation Link: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/12/15/2016-30085/applications-for-new-awards-education-innovation-and-research-program-early-phase-grants
Solicitation Number: CFDA No. 84.411C
Overview
<p>The Education Innovation and Research (EIR) Program, established under section 4611 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as amended by Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), provides funding to create, develop, implement, replicate, or take to scale entrepreneurial, evidence-based, field-initiated innovations to improve student achievement (as defined in this notice) and attainment for high-need students (as defined in this notice); and rigorously evaluate such innovations. The EIR program is designed to generate and validate solutions to persistent educational challenges and to support the expansion of effective solutions to serve substantially larger numbers of students.</p> <p>The central design element of the EIR program is its multi-tier structure that links the amount of funding that an applicant may receive to the quality of the evidence supporting the efficacy of the proposed project, with the expectation that projects that build this evidence will advance through EIR's grant tiers. Applicants proposing innovative projects that are supported by limited evidence can receive relatively small grants to support the development, iteration, and initial evaluation of the practices (as defined in this notice); applicants proposing projects supported by evidence from rigorous evaluations, such as large randomized controlled trials (as defined in this notice), can receive larger grant awards to support expansion across the country. This structure provides incentives for applicants to: (1) Explore new ways of addressing persistent challenges that other educators can build on and learn from; (2) build evidence of effectiveness of their practices; and (3) replicate and scale successful practices in new schools, districts, and states while addressing the barriers to scale, such as cost structures and implementation fidelity.</p> <p>All EIR projects are expected to generate information regarding their effectiveness in order to inform EIR grantees' efforts to learn about and improve upon their efforts, and to help similar, non-EIR efforts across the country benefit from EIR grantees' knowledge.</p>
Solicitation Limitations: <p>No grantee may receive in a single year new EIR grant awards that total an amount greater than the sum of the maximum amount of funds for an Expansion grant and the maximum amount of funds for an Early-phase grant for that year. An applicant must demonstrate sufficient partnerships with schools/LEA(s) by identifying in the application implementation schools/LEA(s) for years 1 and 2 of the grant project. The grantee must conduct an independent evaluation (as defined in this notice) of its project. This evaluation must estimate the impact of the EIR-supported practice (as implemented at the proposed level of scale) on a relevant outcome, with an evaluation design with the potential to meet moderate evidence (as defined in this notice).</p> Other Information:<p>Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(3) we consider only applications that meet Absolute Priority 1, Supporting High-Need Students, and one additional priority. Applicants must clearly identify the specific absolute priority that the proposed project addresses. Absolute Priority 1—Supporting High-Need Students. Absolute Priority 2—Improving School Climate. Absolute Priority 3—Promoting Diversity. Absolute Priority 4—Increasing Postsecondary Preparedness. Absolute Priority 5—Improving the Effectiveness of Principals. Absolute Priority 6—Re-Engagement of Disconnected Youth</p>Last Updated:
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