Overview
The Deputy Assistant Secretary for Formula Grants (OFG) leads the implementation and development of effective and efficient policies, processes, and strategies related to the administration and management of the organization's formula grant programs.
Selected Responsibilities
- Grants Administration: Administer formula grant programs through all phases of the grants cycle, including award, post-award, and close-out activities.
- Policy Development: Develop program requirements, contribute to the development of Department policy, answer policy questions, and perform other activities that direct or guide the design and implementation of a grant.
- Technical Assistance: Help grantees understand the process of designing, implementing, evaluating, and improving effective grant programs.
- Monitoring and Audit Resolution: Help grantees identify and properly address program implementation issues that will result in a more effective and efficient grant program.
- Data Reporting and Analysis: Collect, analyze and use data to help assess grant program progress (e.g., EDFacts, Consolidated State Performance Report (CSPR), and Annual Performance Report (APR)); help grantees focus on and evaluate the attainment of important grant program outputs and outcomes; produce required congressional reports and meet public transparency requirements.
- Program Evaluation: Design, implement and use of formal program evaluations (formative or summative) for the purpose of program improvement and determining grant program merit or worth.
Offices and Programs under OFG
Impact Aid Program
- Discretionary School Construction Payments
- Payments for Federal Property
- Payments for Federally Connected Children
- Facilities Maintenance
Program and Grantee Support Services
- Comprehensive Centers
- Equity Assistance Centers
- Student Engagement and Attendance Center
- State Support Network
Rural, Insular & Native Achievement Programs
- Alaska Native Education
- Consolidated Grants for Insular Areas
- Native Hawaiian Education
- Republic of Palau Grant
- Rural Education Achievement Programs
Safe & Supportive Schools
- Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety
- Expanding Access to Well-Rounded Courses Demonstration Grants Program
- Grants to States for Emergency Management
- Mental Health Service Professional Demonstration Grant program
- Project Prevent
- School Climate Transformation LEA
- School Climate Transformation SEA
- School Emergency Response to Violence (Project SERV)
- School-Based Mental Health Services Grant Program
- Stronger Connections Technical Assistance and Capacity Building Grant Program
- Student Support and Academic Enrichment/Title IV, Part A
- Trauma Recovery Demonstration Grant Program
School Support & Accountability
- Improving Basic Programs Operated by Local Educational Agencies – Title I, Part A
- Grants for State Assessments - Title I-B
- Competitive Grants for State Assessments – Title I-B Competitive
- Supporting Effective Instruction State Grants – Title II, Part A
- 21st Century Community Learning Centers – Title IV-B
- Out-of-School Time Career Pathway Program
- Prevention and Intervention Programs for Children and Youths Who Are Neglected, Delinquent, or At Risk
- Education for Homeless Children and Youths Grants for State and Local Activities
- School Improvement Grants
- 21st CCLC National Technical Assistance Center