US: Foreign Language Assistance Program-LEAs

[Harold Schiffman]

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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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Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone: (215) 898-7475
Fax: (215) 573-2138

Email: haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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