The Department of Education (Department) is seeking intends to provide funding to local education providers for the delivery of climate education professional development in including priority for historical underserved communities by climate education.
Donor Name: Department of Education
State: Maine
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/03/2024
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Priority
The Department will give priority to applications that demonstrate increased student access by serving communities historically underserved by climate education, meaning local education providers that have not been able to provide current environmental or climate education instruction, partnerships, or field opportunities at the local education provider.
These schools and communities may include, but are not limited to:

Students receiving special education services
Multilingual Learners
Students from the black, indigenous, persons of color (BiPoC) community
Students in alternative learning education environments
Remote schools
Rural schools (“rural” from Title V status)
Schools with high populations of students with free or reduced-price meals, >40%
Migrant students
Tribal nations, including tribal schools

Funding Information
The Department plans to make multiple awards of varying amounts $750,000.
Allowable Use of Funds
Funding which is ultimately awarded may be used for the following purposes:

Hiring or contracting for program staff;
Providing stipends or other incentives to teachers and staff;

Stipends require written justification during the contract negotiation phase, if awarded.
Stipends may only be used to pay for staff time beyond their compensated time.

Developing curricula, instructional materials, and purchasing related supplies;
Purchasing non-instructional supplies;
Covering costs associated with renting physical space for programming; and
Paying administrative expenses

Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible to submit an application, the applicant must be a local education provider. For the purpose of this RFA, a local education provider is defined as follows:

A school administrative unit as described
A school in an unorganized territory
A CTE Region school/program established
A school funded by the Bureau of Indian Education.

For more information, visit Department of Education.