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- The Department of Education in the education sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII) Investing in Innovation Fund, Development Grants Development grants Pre Application CFDA Number 84.411P" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 84.411 Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund.
- This funding opportunity was created on Mar 29, 2013 and posted on Mar 27, 2013.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Apr 26, 2013 Note In order to receive an Investing in Innovation Fund (i3) Development grant, an entity must submit a pre application. The pre application is intended to reduce the burden of submitting a full i3 application. Pre applications will be reviewed and scored by peer reviewers using the selection criteria designated in this notice. Entities that submit a highly rated pre application will be invited to submit a full i3 application other pre applicants may choose to do so. Deadline for Notice of Intent to Submit Pre Application April 16, 2013. We will be able to develop a more efficient process for reviewing grant applications if we know the approximate number of applicants that intend to apply for funding under this competition. Therefore, the Secretary strongly encourages each potential applicant to notify us of the applicants intent to submit a pre application by completing a web based form. When completing this form, applicants will provide (1) the applicant organizations name and address and (2) the one absolute priority the applicant intends to address. Applicants may access this form online at http://go.usa.gov/2KeF. Applicants that do not complete this form may still submit a pre application. Deadline for Transmittal of Pre Applications April 26, 2013. Full Applications Available If you are invited to submit a full application, we will transmit the full application package and instructions using the contact information you provide to us. Other pre applicants who choose to submit a full application may request the full application package and instructions from the Department. Deadline for Transmittal of Full Applications Entities that submit a highly rated pre application as scored by peer reviewers and as identified by the Department will be invited to submit a full i3 application. Other pre applicants may choose to submit a full application. The Department will announce on its Web site the deadline date for transmission of full applications and will also communicate this deadline to applicants in the full application package and instructions.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $3,000,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
- 1. Innovations that Improve Achievement for High Need Students All grantees must implement practices that are designed to improve student achievement (as defined in this notice) or student growth (as defined in this notice), close achievement gaps, decrease dropout rates, increase high school graduation rates (as defined in this notice), or increase college enrollment and completion rates for high need students (as defined in this notice). 2. Innovations that Serve Kindergarten through Grade 12 (K 12) Students All grantees must implement practices that serve students who are in grades K 12 at some point during the funding period. To meet this requirement, projects that serve early learners (i.e., infants, toddlers, or preschoolers) must provide services or supports that extend into kindergarten or later years, and projects that serve postsecondary students must provide services or supports during the secondary grades or earlier. 3. Eligible Applicants Entities eligible to apply for i3 grants include either of the following (a) An LEA. (b) A partnership between a nonprofit organization and (1) One or more LEAs or (2) A consortium of schools. Statutory Eligibility Requirements Except as specifically set forth in the Note about Eligibility for an Eligible Applicant that Includes a Nonprofit Organization that follows, to be eligible for an award, an eligible applicant must (a)(1) Have significantly closed the achievement gaps between groups of students described in section 1111(b)(2) of the ESEA (economically disadvantaged students, students from major racial and ethnic groups, students with limited English proficiency, students with disabilities) or (2) Have demonstrated success in significantly increasing student academic achievement for all groups of students described in that section (b) Have made significant improvements in other areas, such as high school graduation rates (as defined in this notice) or increased recruitment and placement of high quality teachers or principals, as demonstrated with meaningful data (c) Demonstrate that it has established one or more partnerships with the private sector, which may include philanthropic organizations, and that organizations in the private sector will provide matching funds in order to help bring results to scale and (d) In the case of an eligible applicant that includes a nonprofit organization, provide in the application the names of the LEAs with which the nonprofit organization will partner, or the names of the schools in the consortium with which it will partner. If an eligible applicant that includes a nonprofit organization intends to partner with additional LEAs or schools that are not named in the application, it must describe in the application the demographic and other characteristics of these LEAs and schools and the process it will use to select them. Note An entity submitting a full application should provide, in Appendix C, under Other Attachments Form, of its full application, information addressing the eligibility requirements described in this section. An applicant must provide, in the full application, sufficient supporting data or other information to allow the Department to determine whether the applicant has met the eligibility requirements. If the Department determines that an applicant has provided insufficient information in its full application, the applicant will not have an opportunity to provide additional information. Note Instructions for the pre application will be available on the i3 Web site. Entities invited to submit a full application will receive instructions about the full application package. Note about LEA Eligibility For purposes of this program, an LEA is an LEA located within one of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
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Opportunity Summary:
The Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII) Investing in Innovation Fund (i3) Development Grants competition (pre-application under CFDA 84.411P, with the later full application under CFDA 84.411C) is a discretionary U.S. Department of Education grant opportunity created to surface, test, and strengthen promising K-12 education innovations. The official requirements and controlling details are those published in the Federal Register notice, but the core idea of this competition is straightforward: i3 is meant to identify solutions to persistent educational problems, build credible evidence about what works, and help effective approaches reach many more students beyond a single school or district. Development grants are the entry point in i3s tiered evidence framework, aimed at ideas that are supported by a strong theory or early signs of promise and that need systematic study to demonstrate effectiveness.
A defining feature of i3 is the evidence-based, multi-tier design that ties funding levels and expectations to the strength of prior research behind the proposed intervention. In the overall i3 program there are Development, Validation, and Scale-up grants, with Development grants intended for newer or less-proven approaches and the other tiers reserved for interventions that already have stronger research support. This specific notice invites applications only for Development grants, which are supposed to support the development or testing of new or substantially improved practices that address widely shared challenges at a national level. In other words, the Department is not looking for projects that are mainly local capacity-building or simple replication of an already well-established program in a new site; the emphasis is on innovation and learning what works through careful evaluation.
Applicants must begin with a pre-application, which is required for an eventual Development award and is designed to reduce the workload of preparing a full proposal when only a subset of applicants will be competitive. Pre-applications are peer reviewed and scored using the selection criteria laid out in the notice. Applicants with highly rated pre-applications are invited to submit a full application, although other pre-applicants may choose to submit a full application as well. The competition is identified on Grants.gov as Funding Opportunity Number ED-GRANTS-032713-001, and applications must be submitted electronically through Grants.gov; the agency explicitly states that applications cannot be submitted by emailing documents. When searching in Grants.gov, applicants are instructed to search for CFDA 84.411 (without the letter suffix) to find the package.
The basic eligibility structure targets two kinds of applicants: (1) a local educational agency (LEA), or (2) a partnership in which a nonprofit organization works with one or more LEAs or with a consortium of schools. The notice also sets out statutory eligibility expectations that go beyond simply being an LEA or a nonprofit-LEA partnership. In general terms, eligible applicants must be able to show meaningful prior success using data, such as significantly closing achievement gaps or significantly improving academic achievement for the major student groups referenced in ESEA accountability provisions (including economically disadvantaged students, major racial and ethnic groups, English learners, and students with disabilities). Applicants must also show significant improvements in other areas like graduation rates or strengthening the recruitment and placement of high-quality teachers or principals. Another major eligibility condition is a demonstrated private-sector partnership that will provide matching funds, reflecting the program requirement for cost sharing or matching. For nonprofit-led partnerships, the application must name the partnering LEAs or schools (or describe the characteristics and selection process if additional partners will be added later), and the Department expects full applications to include enough supporting documentation to make an eligibility determination without follow-up.
Programmatically, Development grant projects must focus on improving outcomes for high-need students. The notice frames this in terms of improving student achievement or student growth, closing achievement gaps, reducing dropout rates, increasing high school graduation rates, or increasing college enrollment and completion. The served population must be within the kindergarten through grade 12 pipeline during the grant period. That K-12 requirement is interpreted to mean that early learning projects must connect their services into kindergarten or later, and postsecondary-focused efforts must still provide supports during secondary grades or earlier. This keeps the competition anchored in K-12 outcomes even when interventions span earlier or later stages.
Evaluation is not treated as an optional add-on in i3; it is a central requirement. Every i3 grantee is expected to dedicate part of its budget to an independent evaluation, as defined by the notice, to generate additional evidence about the interventions effectiveness. For Development grants specifically, applicants are expected to evaluate effectiveness at the scale proposed in the application, so the evaluation design needs to match what the project is actually doing and how broadly it will be implemented. The broader intent is that funded projects add to the national evidence base, helping educators and policymakers understand which practices work, for which students, and under what conditions.
The notice also highlights compliance expectations tied to civil rights and disability law. LEAs participating in i3-funded work remain responsible for complying with IDEA requirements for students with disabilities, including the rights and procedural protections that apply to special education and related services and to eligibility determinations. Separately, grant recipients must provide civil rights assurances and operate their programs in compliance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and its implementing regulations, which prohibit disability discrimination, as well as Title II of the ADA for public entities. The notice also references Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, or national origin, and points applicants to federal guidance on lawful, voluntary approaches to promoting diversity and avoiding racial isolation in K-12 settings.
In terms of timing and process for this specific posting, the opportunity was posted March 27, 2013, with a suggested (but not required) notice of intent deadline of April 16, 2013, submitted through an online form where applicants would provide basic organizational information and identify the absolute priority they intended to address. The deadline for transmittal of pre-applications was April 26, 2013. Full application materials would be provided to invited applicants using the contact information they supplied, and the Department indicated it would announce the full application deadline on its website and in the full application instructions. The award ceiling listed for Development grants in this opportunity is up to $3,000,000, and the listing indicates a matching requirement.
For applicant support and official communication channels, the notice provides Grants.gov technical assistance contact information (including the ED Grants.gov system administrator) and program contacts at the Department of Education, including the program manager and the i3 program email mailbox. The Department repeatedly emphasizes that the synopsis is not a substitute for the Federal Register notice, and that applicants should rely on the official notice for the definitive rules on priorities, selection criteria, required forms and appendices, performance measures, and submission instructions.
Investing in Innovation (i3) Development Grants (OII) - FAQs
1. What is this grant opportunity?
This is the U.S. Department of Education Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII) Investing in Innovation Fund (i3) Development Grants competition. It is a discretionary grant opportunity intended to surface, test, and strengthen promising K-12 education innovations by building credible evidence about what works and helping effective approaches reach more students.
2. What is the main purpose of i3 Development Grants?
Development grants are designed to support the development or testing of new or substantially improved practices that address widely shared educational challenges at a national level. The emphasis is on innovation and learning what works through careful evaluation, rather than primarily local capacity-building or simple replication of an already well-established program in a new site.
3. How do Development grants fit into the i3 evidence framework?
i3 uses a tiered, evidence-based structure that links expectations to the strength of prior research. Across the i3 program there are Development, Validation, and Scale-up grants. Development grants are the entry point for newer or less-proven approaches supported by a strong theory or early signs of promise that need systematic study to demonstrate effectiveness.
4. Is this competition only for Development grants?
Yes. The notice described here invites applications only for i3 Development grants (not Validation or Scale-up).
5. What are the CFDA numbers for this opportunity?
The pre-application is under CFDA 84.411P. The later full application is under CFDA 84.411C.
6. What is the Funding Opportunity Number on Grants.gov?
The Grants.gov Funding Opportunity Number is ED-GRANTS-032713-001.
7. How do applicants find the application package on Grants.gov?
When searching in Grants.gov, applicants are instructed to search for CFDA 84.411 (without the letter suffix) to locate the package.
8. Can applications be submitted by email?
No. The agency states that applications must be submitted electronically through Grants.gov and cannot be submitted by emailing documents.
9. Is a pre-application required?
Yes. Applicants must begin with a pre-application, which is required for an eventual Development award.
10. Why does the competition use a pre-application process?
The pre-application process is intended to reduce the workload associated with preparing full proposals when only a subset of applicants will be competitive. Pre-applications are peer reviewed and scored using the selection criteria in the notice.
11. If a pre-application is highly rated, what happens next?
Applicants with highly rated pre-applications are invited to submit a full application. The Department indicates that full application materials will be provided to invited applicants using the contact information supplied in the pre-application process.
12. Can an applicant submit a full application without being invited?
Yes. The notice indicates that other pre-applicants may choose to submit a full application as well, even if they are not among those with highly rated pre-applications.
13. Who is eligible to apply?
Eligibility is structured around two categories: (1) a local educational agency (LEA), or (2) a partnership in which a nonprofit organization works with one or more LEAs or with a consortium of schools.
14. Are there eligibility expectations beyond being an LEA or a nonprofit-LEA partnership?
Yes. The notice describes statutory eligibility expectations that go beyond organizational type. In general, eligible applicants must be able to demonstrate meaningful prior success using data (for example, significantly closing achievement gaps or significantly improving academic achievement for major ESEA accountability student groups). Applicants must also show significant improvements in areas such as graduation rates or strengthening recruitment and placement of high-quality teachers or principals.
15. What student groups are referenced in the eligibility discussion?
The notice references major student groups included in ESEA accountability provisions, including economically disadvantaged students, major racial and ethnic groups, English learners, and students with disabilities.
16. Is there a matching or cost-sharing requirement?
Yes. The listing indicates a matching requirement, and the notice describes a requirement for a demonstrated private-sector partnership that will provide matching funds.
17. What is required for nonprofit-led partnerships regarding partner identification?
For nonprofit-led partnerships, the application must name the partnering LEAs or schools, or describe the characteristics and selection process if additional partners will be added later.
18. What documentation does the Department expect for eligibility?
The Department expects full applications to include enough supporting documentation to make an eligibility determination without follow-up.
19. What must Development grant projects focus on?
Development grant projects must focus on improving outcomes for high-need students.
20. What kinds of outcomes does the notice emphasize?
The notice frames intended outcomes in terms such as improving student achievement or student growth, closing achievement gaps, reducing dropout rates, increasing high school graduation rates, and increasing college enrollment and completion.
21. What grades must the served population be in during the grant period?
The served population must be within the kindergarten through grade 12 pipeline during the grant period.
22. How does the notice treat early learning projects?
Early learning projects must connect their services into kindergarten or later to meet the K-12 pipeline requirement.
23. How does the notice treat postsecondary-focused efforts?
Postsecondary-focused efforts must still provide supports during secondary grades or earlier, keeping the competition anchored in K-12 outcomes even if an intervention spans later stages.
24. Is evaluation required?
Yes. Evaluation is a central requirement in i3. Every i3 grantee is expected to dedicate part of its budget to an independent evaluation (as defined by the notice) to generate additional evidence about the intervention's effectiveness.
25. What is expected of the evaluation for Development grants specifically?
For Development grants, applicants are expected to evaluate effectiveness at the scale proposed in the application. The evaluation design should match what the project is actually doing and how broadly it will be implemented.
26. Why is evaluation emphasized so strongly in i3?
The broader intent is for funded projects to add to the national evidence base, helping educators and policymakers understand which practices work, for which students, and under what conditions.
27. What civil rights and disability compliance expectations are highlighted?
The notice highlights compliance expectations under IDEA for students with disabilities, including rights and procedural protections related to special education, related services, and eligibility determinations. It also states that recipients must provide civil rights assurances and comply with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and its implementing regulations, Title II of the ADA for public entities, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, or national origin).
28. Does the notice mention guidance related to diversity and racial isolation?
Yes. The notice points applicants to federal guidance on lawful, voluntary approaches to promoting diversity and avoiding racial isolation in K-12 settings.
29. When was this opportunity posted?
The opportunity was posted on March 27, 2013.
30. Was a notice of intent required?
No. A notice of intent was suggested but not required. The suggested deadline was April 16, 2013, and it was to be submitted through an online form requesting basic organizational information and the absolute priority the applicant intended to address.
31. What was the deadline for pre-applications?
The deadline for transmittal of pre-applications was April 26, 2013.
32. When was the full application due?
The Department indicated it would announce the full application deadline on its website and in the full application instructions.
33. What is the maximum award amount for Development grants in this posting?
The award ceiling listed for Development grants in this opportunity is up to $3,000,000.
34. Where should applicants look for the official requirements and controlling details?
The notice repeatedly emphasizes that the synopsis is not a substitute for the Federal Register notice. Applicants should rely on the Federal Register notice for definitive rules on priorities, selection criteria, required forms and appendices, performance measures, and submission instructions.
35. What support contacts are referenced for applicants?
The notice provides Grants.gov technical assistance contact information (including the ED Grants.gov system administrator) and program contacts at the Department of Education, including the program manager and the i3 program email mailbox, for applicant support and official communications.
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