US: Foreign Language Assistance Program-LEAs

[Francis Hult]

Education Week

 

Foreign Language Assistance Program-LEAs

 

Eligibility: LEAs, including charter schools that are considered LEAs under State law, in partnership with one or more 
institutions of higher education.

 

Purpose: The Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP) provides grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) for innovative 
model programs providing for the establishment, improvement, or expansion of foreign language study for elementary and secondary school students. Under this competition, as required by the fiscal year 2008 



Appropriations Act, 5-year grants will be awarded to LEAs to work in partnership with one or more institutions of higher education (IHEs) to establish or expand articulated programs of study in languages critical to United States national security in order to enable successful students to achieve a superior level of proficiency in those languages 
as they advance from elementary school through high school and college. In addition, an LEA that receives a grant under this program must use the funds to support programs that show the promise of being continued beyond the grant period and demonstrate approaches that can be disseminated to and duplicated in other LEAs. Projects supported under this program may also include a professional development component.

 

Please Note: Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply: April 11, 2008.

 

More information:

http://www.edweek.org/ew/section/grants/grant_info.html?grant_id=13289

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