Bilingual Education/Foreign Language Education: Academic Excellence Awards

A r c h i v e d I n f o r m a t i o n

Achieving the Goals: Goal 4 Teacher Professional Development - August 1996

Bilingual Education/Foreign Language Education

* - designates programs that have a particular usefulness at the school or school district level

Academic Excellence Awards*

Provides financial assistance for the dissemination of programs of bilingual education or special alternative instruction and professional development programs that demonstrate promise of assisting children and youth of limited English proficiency to meet challenging state standards. Grants may be made to state and local educational agencies, nonprofit organizations, and institutions of higher education.

Mary T. Mahony
Office of Bilingual and Minority Languages Affairs
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202-6510
Phone: (202) 205-8728

Bilingual Education Program Development and Implementation Grants*

Provides grants to develop and implement new comprehensive, coherent, and successful bilingual or special alternative instructional programs for limited English proficient (LEP) students. Programs of instruction may include early childhood, kindergarten through twelfth grade, gifted and talented, and vocational and applied technology. Eligible applicants include one or more local education agencies applying alone or in collaboration with an institution of higher education, community based organizations or a local or state education agency. A community based organization or institution of higher education, with the approval of a local education agency, may apply the grant to develop family education programs, early childhood education programs or supplemental instructional programs for LEP students.

James H. Lockhart
Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202
(202) 205-5426

Bilingual Education Program Enhancement Grants*

Provides grants to carry out highly focused, innovative, locally designed projects to expand or enhance existing bilingual education or special alternative instruction programs for limited English proficient (LEP) students. Eligible applicants include one or more local educational agencies applying alone or in collaboration with an institution of higher education, community based organization or state educational agency. In addition, a community-based organization or institution of higher education with the approval of a local education agency may apply to enhance family education programs, early childhood education programs, or supplemental instructional programs for LEP students.

Diane DeMaio
Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202-6510
(202) 205-5716

Bilingual Education Teachers and Personnel Grants*

Makes grants to provide preservice and in-service professional development for bilingual teachers, administrators, pupil services personnel, and other educational personnel who are either involved in, or preparing to be involved in, the provision of educational services for limited English proficient students. Makes grants to provide for national professional development institutes that assist schools or departments of education in institutions of higher education to improve the quality of professional development programs for personnel serving, preparing to serve, or who may serve limited English proficient students. Grants may be made to institutions of higher education that have consortia arrangements with local or state education agencies; state education agencies; and local education agencies for in-service professional development programs.

Cindy Ryan
U.S. Department of Education
Office of Bilingual and Minority Languages Affairs
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202
Phone: (202) 205-8842

Comprehensive School Grants*

Makes funds available to assist in the implementation of schoolwide bilingual education or special alternative instructional programs for reforming, restructuring, and upgrading all relevant programs and operations, within an individual school, that serve all (or virtually all) children and youth of limited English proficiency in schools with significant concentrations of such children and youth. Grants be made to one or more local education agencies applying alone or in collaboration with an institution of higher education, community-based organizations, or a local or state education agency.

Rebecca Richey or Alex Stein
U.S. Department of Education
Office of Bilingual and Minority Languages Affairs
MES Building, Room 5082
330 C Street, SW
Washington, DC 20202
Phone: (202) 205-9717, (202) 205-5713, respectively.

Field-Initiated Research*

Makes funding available to carry out field-initiated research conducted by current or recent recipients of Title VII grants. This research may provide for longitudinal studies of students or teachers in bilingual education, or monitoring the education of the students from entry in bilingual education through secondary school completion. Current or recent recipients of Title VII grants under subpart 1 or 2 (Bilingual Education Capacity and Demonstration Grants; and Bilingual Education Research Evaluation, and Dissemination) who have received grants within the previous 5 years.

Tim D'Emilio or Millie Lanauze
U.S. Department of Education
Office of Bilingual and Minority Languages Affairs
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202
Phone: (202) 205-8739, (202) 205-9475, respectively

Foreign Language Assistance Program*

Makes grants available to establish, improve, or expand foreign language programs for elementary and secondary students. Local education agencies and state education agencies may apply for grants.

Petraine Johnson or Ursula Lord
U.S. Department of Education
Office of Bilingual and Minority Languages Affairs
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202
Telephone: (202) 205-8766 or (202) 205-5709, respectively.

Fulbright-Hays Training Grants -- Faculty Research Abroad

Provides opportunities for faculty members to conduct research and study abroad in foreign languages and area studies in order to develop research knowledge and capability in world areas not commonly taught in U.S. institutions. Institutions of higher education (faculty members must apply through their employing schools).

Linda Byrd Johnson
Center for International Education
Advanced Training and Research Branch
2100 Corridor, L'Enfant Plaza, SW
Washington, DC 20202
Telephone: (202) 401-9775.

Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program

Increases mutual understanding between people of the United States and other countries by offering qualified American educators opportunities to participate in short-term seminars abroad. Undergraduate faculty members from postsecondary institutions whose professional activities primarily include teaching introductory courses in the humanities or social sciences; secondary school social studies teachers; administrators and curriculum specialists of state or local education agencies with direct responsibility for curriculum development in social studies.

Linda Byrd Johnson
Center for International Education
Advanced Training and Research Branch
L'Enfant Plaza, SW, 2100 Corridor
Washington, DC 20202
Phone: (202) 401-9775.

Graduate Fellowships Program

Provides financial assistance to individuals who are pursuing master's, doctoral, or postdoctoral study in areas related to instruction of limited English proficient children and youth in such areas as teacher training, program administration, research and evaluation, and curriculum development. Assistance may also be provided for the support of dissertation research related to such study. Institutions of higher education. Individuals who meet the eligibility requirements may apply for a fellowship through an institution participating in the program.

Joyce Brown
U.S. Department of Education
Office of Bilingual and Minority Languages Affairs
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202
Phone: (202) 205-9727

Systemwide Improvement Grants*

Makes funds available to assist in the implementation of districtwide bilingual education or special alternative instructional programs to improve, reform, and upgrade relevant programs and operations, within an entire local education agency that serves a significant number of children and youth of limited English proficiency. Applicants may include one or more local educational agencies applying alone or in collaboration with an institution of higher education, community-based organizations, other local educational agencies, or state educational agency.

Harry Logel or Jim Lockhart
U.S. Department of Education
OBEMLA, Fifth Floor, Switzer Building, SW
Washington, DC 20202
Phone: (202) 205-5530 and (202) 205-5426

Training for All Teachers Program*

Makes grants to provide for the incorporation of courses and curricula on appropriate and effective instructional and assessment methodologies, strategies, and resources specific to limited English proficient students into preservice and in-service professional development programs for teachers, pupil personnel services, administrators, and other educational personnel in order to prepare individuals to provide effective services to limited English proficient students. Institutions of higher education, local education agencies or state education agencies, or nonprofit organizations that have consortia arrangements with one of the institutions or agencies.

Cindy Ryan
U.S. Department of Education
OBEMLA, Fifth Floor, Switzer Building, SW
Washington, DC 20202
Telephone: (202) 205-8842

Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program

Awards grants to institutions of higher education to assist in planning and carrying out programs to strengthen and improve undergraduate instruction in international studies and foreign languages. Grants are also awarded for model programs and to nonprofit agencies and organizations for projects that will significantly contribute to undergraduate instruction. Institutions of higher education; combinations of such institutions; public and private nonprofit agencies and organizations.

Ms. Christine Corry
U.S. Department of Education
Center for International Education
International Studies Branch
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington DC 20202
Telephone: (202) 401-9798
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