Application Deadline: CLOSED

Award date: September 2009

2009 APPLICATION

2009 application package:
MS WORD (1.2M)

To apply electronically go to: http://e-grants.ed.gov. The e-grants help desk is at 1-888-336-8930.

Technical assistance:

U.S. Department of Education's Electronic Grant Initiatives: FY 2009 e-Application Striving Readers Program FY 2009 Grant Competition

e-Grants FY 2009 e-App Presentation: (June 2009)
PDF (5.46MB)

Striving Readers Competition FY 2009: (June 2009)
PDF (524kB)

Striving Readers June 17-18,2009 Webinar Participants' Questions: (June 2009)
WORD (524kB)

To submit application in paper format by mail:

U.S. Department of Education
Application Control Center
Attention: (CFDA Number 84.371A)
LBJ Basement Level 1
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202-4260

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE WORKSHOPS FOR PROSPECTIVE APPLICANTS

Dates and Instructions for Technical Assistance Workshops

June 17, 2009 at 2:00pm (EST)
June 18, 2009 at 2:00pm (EST)

Please log in to the session 5 minutes before the assigned start time. The technical assistance workshop will be conducted using a Webinar format. You must do the following to join the workshop:

1. Using your Web Browser, log on to: http://www.webdialogs.com/join/
2. Click on the link titled "Unyte Meeting System Check" on the left hand side of the screen. Proceed through the system check and then select the Participant Only option. Once the check is completed;
3. Under Meeting Login, enter the Conference ID: 55412
4. Complete the sign-in form with your name, email, agency name and phone number (we will use this to take roll during the call) and click the LOG IN button to connect to the Webinar portion of the orientation.
5. Call the Audio Conferencing phone number: (888) 676-3315 The call will begin once the conference moderator has joined the call. If you have any problems dialing into the call, please contact Ms. Charlotte Grobe at (240) 485-1700 ext. 227

Additional Pre-application Technical Assistance

• U.S. Department of Education's Electronic Grant Initiatives: FY 2009 e-Application

• Striving Readers Notice of proposed priorities, requirements, definitions, and selection criteria. The Assistant Secretary may use these priorities, requirements, definitions, and selection criteria for competitions in fiscal year (FY) 2009 and later years. (April 8, 2009)
• Federal Register Notice Inviting Applications (Modification) (September 30, 2005)
  PDF (51K)
• Federal Register Notice Inviting Applications (August 15, 2005)
  PDF (71K)

The Striving Readers program did not hold a competition for new grant awards in 2008. The 2008 appropriation for Striving Readers was increased by approximately $5 million dollars. Any funds that remain from the 2008 appropriation will be competed in 2009.

The Striving Readers program will not hold a competition for new grant awards in 2007. The 2007 appropriation for Striving Readers was approximately the same as it was in 2006. Consequently, 2007 funds are being used to make continuation awards to the eight projects first funded in 2006. The 2007 funds will support the second year of program implementation in the eight sites.

Striving Readers was first funded in FY 2005. A competition for grant awards was held in 2005 with applications due November 14, 2005 and awards made March 1, 2006. The application package for the 2005-06 competition continues to be available here as a source of information about the requirements and goals of the Striving Readers program.