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Subject: Grants and Funding Opportunities Alert

Title: Early Reading First Program

Category:   Grants Notice

Issuing Agency: Department of Education. Office of Elementary and  
Secondary
Education

Issue Date Month/Year: 01/2006

URL:
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20061800/ 
edocket.access.gpo.gov
/2006/06-446.htm

Summary: This program supports local efforts to enhance the oral  
language,
cognitive, and early reading skills of preschool-age children,  
especially
those from low-income families, through strategies, materials, and
professional development that are grounded in scientifically based  
reading
research.
     The specific activities for which recipients must use grant  
funds are
identified in the program statute, which is included in the application
package.
     Priorities: This competition includes three invitational  
priorities and
one competitive preference priority

Eligible Applicants: Under this competition, eligible applicants are  
(a) one
or more local educational agencies (LEAs) that are eligible to receive a
subgrant under the Reading First program (title I, part B, subpart 1  
of the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended (ESEA));  
(b) one
or more public or private organizations or agencies (including faith- 
based
organizations) located in a community served by an eligible LEA; or  
(c) one
or more eligible LEAs, applying in collaboration with one or more  
eligible
organizations or agencies. To qualify under paragraph (b) of this
definition, the organization's or agency's application must be on  
behalf of
one or more programs that serve preschool-age children (such as a  
Head Start
program, a child care program, or a family literacy program such as Even
Start, or a lab school at a university), unless the organization or  
agency
itself operates a preschool program.

Action Date:  Applications Available: January 20, 2006.
     Deadline for Transmittal of Pre-Applications: February 20, 2006.
     Deadline for Transmittal of Full Applications: May 8, 2006

Contact: Jill Stewart, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland  
Avenue,
SW., room 3C136, Washington, DC 20202-6132. Telephone: (202) 260-2533  
or by
e-mail: Jill.Stewart at ed.gov or Rebecca Haynes, U.S. Department of  
Education,
400 Maryland Avenue, SW., room 3C138, Washington, DC 20202-6132.  
Telephone:
(202) 260-0968 or by
e-mail: Rebecca.Haynes at ed.gov.

Full Text: To access the complete notice, please open this link or  
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Gail J. Price
Multimedia Specialist
National Center for Family Literacy
325 West Main Street, Suite 300
Louisville, KY 40205

Phone: 502 584-1133, ext. 112
Fax: 502 584-0172