Opportunity Information: Apply for ED GRANTS 020119 003
The Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) Education Innovation and Research (EIR) Program: Early-phase Grants (CFDA 84.411C) is a discretionary U.S. Department of Education grant competition designed to help educators and their partners develop and test new, field-initiated approaches that aim to improve student achievement and attainment for high-need students. The program is authorized under section 4611 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as amended. At its core, EIR is meant to push promising ideas forward while also insisting on credible, independent evaluation so the field learns what actually works, for whom it works, and under what conditions.
A key feature of EIR is its multi-tier structure, which ties the size of an award and the expectations for scaling to the strength of the evidence behind the proposed innovation. The program is built around three tiers: Early-phase, Mid-phase, and Expansion. Early-phase supports newer or less-proven innovations that have some reason to believe they could work but do not yet have strong, rigorous evidence. Mid-phase and Expansion are intended for projects with stronger prior evidence and are structured to replicate and scale proven interventions to reach far more students. This particular opportunity is only for Early-phase grants; Mid-phase and Expansion competitions are announced separately.
For Early-phase grants specifically, the Department is looking for projects that are still in the development and learning stage: applicants are expected to create or further develop an innovation, implement it in practice, and run feasibility testing to determine whether it can be implemented well and whether it shows promise for improving outcomes for high-need students. Early-phase applicants must be able to demonstrate a rationale, meaning there should be a logical, research-informed theory for why the approach should improve student achievement and attainment. These grants are not meant to simply take an already-established program and roll it out to more sites, and they are also not meant to fund solutions that only make sense in a single unique local context. The emphasis is on identifying potentially scalable practices and learning early what it takes to implement them with fidelity and reasonable cost.
Another defining requirement of EIR is the expectation that every funded project contributes usable knowledge back to the field. The Department requires independent evaluations for EIR grantees, and even at the Early-phase level the goal is to generate credible information about implementation and outcomes. That evaluation requirement is part of how EIR tries to increase the supply of trustworthy evidence for practitioners and policymakers, while also helping grantees improve their own work through structured learning and data.
In terms of the competition logistics provided in the notice synopsis, applications were made available February 1, 2019, with an application deadline of April 2, 2019. The Department also strongly encouraged (but did not require) a Notice of Intent to Apply by February 21, 2019, submitted through a brief web form; this was intended to help the agency plan for peer review by estimating the number of incoming applications and identifying which absolute priorities applicants planned to address. The listed award ceiling for an Early-phase grant in this competition was $4,000,000, and the Department anticipated making about 28 awards. The opportunity is identified as a grant funding instrument under the education funding activity category, with funding opportunity number ED GRANTS 020119 003.
Finally, the synopsis repeatedly notes that it is not the full legal or procedural authority for applying. The controlling details are in the official Federal Register notice, along with the Department of Education Common Instructions for Applicants to Discretionary Grant Programs (referenced as published February 12, 2018, 83 FR 6003). Those sources provide the definitive requirements for eligibility, submission procedures, priorities, performance measures, and other application rules, and applicants are directed to those documents for the exact standards that would govern an application.Apply for ED GRANTS 020119 003
- The Department of Education in the education sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Education Innovation and Research (EIR) Program: Early-phase Grants CFDA Number 84.411C" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 84.411.
- This funding opportunity was created on Feb 01, 2019.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Apr 02, 2019 Applications Available February 1, 2019. Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply February 21, 2019. 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 applicantaposs intent to submit an application by completing a web-based form. When completing this form, applicants will provide (1) the applicant organizationaposs name and address and (2) which absolute priorities the applicant intends to address. Applicants may access this form online at www.surveymonkey.com/r/GXJTJ59. Applicants that do not complete this form may still submit an application.. (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 $4,000,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 28 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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