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April 14, 2008
Notice Inviting Applications under FLAP
The Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP) provides grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) for innovative model programs providing for the establishment, improvement, or expansion of foreign language study for elementary and secondary school students. Under this competition, as required by the fiscal year 2008 Appropriations Act, 5-year grants will be awarded to LEAs to work in partnership with one or more institutions of higher education (IHEs) to establish or expand articulated programs of study in languages critical to United States national security in order to enable successful students to achieve a superior level of proficiency in those languages as they advance from elementary school through high school and college. In addition, an LEA that receives a grant under this program must use the funds to support programs that show the promise of being continued beyond the grant period and demonstrate approaches that can be disseminated to and duplicated in other LEAs. Projects supported under this program may also include a professional development component.
This notice involves an absolute priority and four competitive preference priorities.
Absolute Priority: Sequential Study of Critical Languages
Competitive Preference Priorities:
* Projects that include intensive summer foreign language programs for professional development.
* Projects that link non-native English speakers in the community with the schools in order to promote two-way language learning.
* Projects that make effective use of technology, such as computer-assisted instruction, language laboratories, or distance learning, to promote foreign language study.
* Projects that promote innovative activities, such as foreign language immersion, partial foreign language immersion, or content-based instruction.
Applications Available: March 27, 2008
Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply: April 11, 2008
Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: April 30, 2008
Deadline for Intergovernmental Review: June 30, 2008
See the Federal Register Application Notice at--
http://www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/announcements/2008-1/032708a.pdf
For more information on FLAP, see http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/oela/OELAprograms/4_FLAP.htm
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