Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Safe & Supportive Schools: Fostering Diverse Schools Demonstration Grants, Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 84.424G

Background
The Fostering Diverse Schools Demonstration Grants program provides competitive grants to local educational agencies (LEAs), consortia of LEAs, or one or more LEAs in partnership with a State educational agency (SEA) to provide students with access to a well-rounded education and to improve school conditions for student learning by developing or implementing comprehensive plans for increasing school socioeconomic diversity in preschool through grade 12.

Grant Details
The Department invites LEAs, consortia of LEAs, or one or more LEAs in partnership with a SEA to apply for funding to develop or enhance a locally tailored comprehensive plan to increase socioeconomic diversity across and within LEAs, schools, and academic programs or courses. The plan must include goals, metrics, timelines, and cost estimates for improving and sustaining socioeconomic diversity in covered LEAs, schools, classrooms, and educational programs. Additionally, the plan must include professional development activities that support educators in creating safe, supportive, and inclusive learning environments; actions that build capacity to collect and analyze data for transparency, evaluation, and continuous improvement; an approach to sustaining robust ongoing engagement with families, students, community members, and educators; and specific methods for increasing socioeconomic diversity within schools, classrooms, educational programs or courses.

Eligibility Requirements
LEAs, consortia of LEAs, or one or more LEAs in partnership with an SEA are eligible to apply for the grant.

Period of Performance
For grants under Absolute Priority 1: up to 24 months.
For grants under Absolute Priority 2: up to 60 months.

Grant Value
$250,000–$500,000 per year for grants under Absolute Priority 1;
$1,000,000–$4,000,000 per year for grants under Absolute Priority 2.