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Parental Involvement Programs

Bilingual Education

Bilingual Education -- Comprehensive School Grants

The Comprehensive School Grants program is designed to develop schoolwide programs for limited English proficient students that reform, restructure, and upgrade all relevant programs and operations within an individual school that has a concentration of limited English proficient students. Projects are to assist in the development of schoolwide programs that reform, restructure, and upgrade all relevant programs serving a high concentration of limited English proficient students.

Harry Logal
Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs
U.S. Department of Education
600 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202
(202) 205-5530

Bilingual Education -- Program Development and Implementation Grants

This program’s objectives are to develop and implement new comprehensive, coherent, and successful bilingual education or special alternative instructional programs for limited English proficient students, including programs of early childhood education, kindergarten through twelfth grade education, gifted and talented education, and vocational and applied technology education. It is designed to improve the education of limited English proficient students and their families by implementing family education programs and parent outreach and training activities designed to assist parents to become active participants in the education of their children. Projects funded under this program will also improve the instructional program by identifying, acquiring, and upgrading curriculum, instructional and educational software, and assessment procedures, compensating personnel (including teacher aides who have been specifically trained, or are being trained), providing services, and providing tutorials and academic career counseling for children and youth of limited English proficiency.

Local education agencies may apply for funds under this program.

John Ovard
Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs
U.S. Department of Education
600 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202
(202) 205-5576

Immigrant Education

The Immigrant Education program provides assistance to states for education services and costs for immigrant children enrolled in elementary and secondary public and non-public schools. States provide funding to those local education agencies (LEAs) whose enrollment of immigrant children in elementary and secondary public and non-public schools is at least 500 or 3 percent of total enrollment. To be counted, immigrant children must have been enrolled in U.S. schools for less than three years.

Funds may be used to:

• provide supplementary education services for immigrant children to achieve a satisfactory level of performance
  
• provide basic instructional services directly attributable to the presence of immigrant children and
  
• provide in service training for personnel instructing immigrant children

State education agencies are eligible to apply for a grant. U.S. Territories are also eligible to apply.

Ms. Harpreet Sandu
Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs
Department of Education
Room 5615, Switzer Building
330 C Street, SW
Washington, DC 20202
(202) 205-9808

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