Is your school district eligible for this opportunity for more money for
your school libraries?
Three Maine school districts successfully applied for and received previous
Improving Literacy Through School Libraries monies. They are highly
competitive grants with a limited number of grants awarded compared to the
number that apply, but applying lets Congress know that there is a
significant need to justify funding it at a level more consistent with the
ILSL authorization.
There's still time to apply but first you need to let them know of your
intent to apply.
Call me at 1-800-322-8899 if you have questions or would like assistance.
Sylvia
Sylvia K. Norton
School Library/Technology Planning Coordinator
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ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline Volume 13,
Number 23 April 5, 2004
In This Issue: Improving Literacy Through School Libraries Program Invites
Applications for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 2004
[Reprinted from the Department of Education]
DATES: Applications Available: April 5, 2004.
Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply: April 27, 2004. Deadline for
Transmittal of Applications: May 20, 2004. Deadline for Intergovernmental
Review: July 19, 2004.
Eligible Applicants: Local Educational Agencies (LEAs) in which at
least 20 percent of the students served by the LEA are from families with
incomes below the poverty line. A list of LEAs with their family poverty
rates is posted on our Web site at:
http://www.ed.gov/programs/lsl/eligibility.html.
Estimated Available Funds: $19.8 million.
Estimated Range of Awards: $30,000 to $350,000.
Note: Actual award amounts will be based on the number of
schools and students served by the project.
Estimated Average Size of Awards: $100,000.
Estimated Number of Awards: 200.
Note: The Department is not bound by any estimates in this
notice.
Project Period: 12 months.
I. Funding Opportunity Description
Purpose of Program: The purpose of this program is to improve
student reading skills and academic achievement by providing students with
increased access to up-to-date school library materials; well-equipped,
technologically advanced school library media centers; and well-trained,
professionally certified school library media specialists.
Clarification of Eligible Local Activities: Applicants may propose
professional development activities for school library media
specialists that further the purposes of the program not only as
related to preschool education, but also as related to education
benefiting children in grades K-3. (See the notice of final
clarification of eligible local activities for this program, published
elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register.)
Under this competition we are particularly interested in
applications that address the following priority. Invitational
Priority: For FY 2004 this priority is an invitational priority. Under 34
CFR 75.105(c)(1) we do not give an application that meets this invitational
priority a competitive or absolute preference over other applications.
Under this priority the Secretary strongly encourages applicants to focus
their efforts on elementary schools to maximize the impact of the project on
improving reading achievement.
II. Award Information
Type of Award: Discretionary grants.
Estimated Available Funds: $19.8 million.
Estimated Range of Awards: $30,000 to $350,000.
Estimated Average Size of Awards: $100,000.
Note: Actual award amounts will be based on the number of
schools and students served by the project.
Estimated Number of Awards: 200.
Note: The Department is not bound by any estimates in this notice.
Project Period: 12 months.
III. Eligibility Information
1. Eligible Applicants: LEAs in which at least 20 percent of the
students served by the LEA are from families with incomes below the poverty
line. A list of LEAs with their family poverty rates is posted on our Web
site at: http://www.ed.gov/programs/lsl/eligibility.html.
2. Cost Sharing or Matching: This program does not involve cost
sharing or matching, but does involve supplement-not-supplant funding
provisions. Funds made available under this program shall be used to
supplement, and not supplant, other Federal, State, and local funds expended
to carry out activities relating to library, technology, or professional
development activities (20 U.S.C. 6383(i)).
IV. Application and Submission Information
1. Address to Request Application Package: Education Publications
Center (ED Pubs), P.O. Box 1398, Jessup, MD
[[Page 17896]]
20794-1398. Telephone (toll free): 1-877-433-7827. FAX: (301) 470 1244. If
you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD), you may call (toll
free): 1-877-576-7734.
You may also contact ED Pubs at its Web site:
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/edpubs.html or you may contact ED Pubs at its e-mail
address: [log in to unmask] If you request an application from ED Pubs, be
sure to identify this competition as follows: CFDA number 84.364A.
Individuals with disabilities may obtain a copy of the application
package in an alternative format (e.g., Braille, large print,
audiotape, or computer diskette) by contacting the program contact
person listed under section VII of this notice.
You may obtain an application package for this program via the
Internet at the following address:
http://www.ed.gov/programs/lsl/applicant.html.
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