Teacher Quality Partnership Grants Program Recovery Act (ARRA) CFDA 84.405A | Apply Online

Opportunity Information: Apply for ED GRANTS 080409 001

• The Department of Education in the education recovery act sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Teacher Quality Partnership Grants Program Recovery Act (ARRA) CFDA 84.405A" and is now available to receive applicants.
• This funding opportunity was created on Aug 4, 2009 and posted on Aug 4, 2009.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Oct 6, 2009 Note On May 27, 2009, we published in the Federal Register (74 FR 25221) a notice inviting applications for new FY 2009 awards for the Teacher Quality Partnership Program (Initial TQP Application Notice). Since that time, Public Law (Pub. L.) 111 39 was enacted, which made certain technical amendments to the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008, the original statute authorizing the program. This notice inviting applications has been updated to respond to statutory changes made to the TQP program and supersedes the Initial TQP Application Notice. Applications Available August 4, 2009. Deadline for Transmittal of Applications First Deadline July 23, 2009. Second Deadline October 6, 2009.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2024.)
• The funding agency has allocated a total of $143,000,000.00 to eligible and selected applicants.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 25 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
• Eligible Applicant An eligible applicant must be an eligible partnership as defined in section 200(6) of the HEA. The fiscal agent of the grant may be any of the partners as described in section 200 of the HEA. The eligible partnership means an entity that (1) Must include each of the following (i) A high need LEA. (ii) A high need school or consortium of high need schools served by the high need LEA, or, as applicable, a high need ECE program. (iii) A partner institution. (iv) A school, department, or program of education within such partner institution, which may include an existing teacher professional development program with proven outcomes within a four year IHE that provides intensive and sustained collaboration between faculty and LEAs consistent with the requirements of Title II of the HEA. (v) A school or department of arts and sciences within such partner institution and (2) May include any of the following (i) The Governor of the State. (ii) The State educational agency. (iii) The State board of education. (iv) The State agency for higher education. (v) A business. (vi) A public or private nonprofit educational organization. (vii) An educational service agency. (viii) A teacher organization. (ix) A high performing LEA, or a consortium of high performing LEAs, that can serve as a resource to the partnership. (x) A charter school (as defined in section 5210 of the ESEA). (xi) A school or department within the partner institution that focuses on psychology and human development. (xii) A school or department within the partner institution with comparable expertise in the disciplines of teaching, learning, and child and adolescent development. (xiii) An entity operating a program that provides alternative routes to State certification of teachers.

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