OSERS-OSEP: Personnel Preparation of Special Education, Early Intervention, and Related Services Personnel, Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 84.325K
Grant Opportunity Analysis
The U.S. Department of Education is offering a discretionary grant competition under ALN 84.325K to prepare and increase the number of personnel qualified to serve children with disabilities in special education, early intervention, and related services. The program funds projects that use evidence-based strategies to prepare scholars at the bachelor’s, certification, master’s, educational specialist, or clinical doctoral level for roles serving infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and school-age children in settings such as homes, communities, child care, classrooms, and schools. Applicants must address state or tribal personnel shortages and needs, and proposals are evaluated on significance, project design, management, resources, and evaluation, with at least 70% of the award directed to scholar support. The competition provides an estimated $8.75 million for about 35 awards, with a maximum of $1.25 million per project over 60 months and an annual limit of $350,000, and applications are due July 2, 2026.
Eligible Applicants
Institutions of higher education (IHEs),2 and private nonprofit organizations.Note: Eligible applicants must have a bachelor’s degree, certification, master’s degree, educational specialist degree, or clinical doctoral degree program that prepares scholars in special education, early intervention, and related services or be a private nonprofit organization that has the legal authority to enter into grants and cooperative agreements with the Federal government on behalf of an applicant that has a bachelor’s degree, certification, master’s degree, educational specialist degree, or clinical doctoral degree program that prepare scholars in special education, early intervention, and related services.Note: If you are a nonprofit organization, under 34 CFR 75.51, you may demonstrate your nonprofit status by providing: (1) proof that the Internal Revenue Service currently recognizes the applicant as an organization to which contributions are tax deductible under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code; (2) a statement from a State taxing body or the State attorney general certifying that the organization is a nonprofit organization operating within the State and that no part of its net earnings may lawfully benefit any private shareholder or individual; (3) a certified copy of the applicant’s certificate of incorporation or similar document if it clearly establishes the nonprofit status of the applicant; or (4) any item described above if that item applies to a State or national parent organization, together with a statement by the State or parent organization that the applicant is a local nonprofit affiliate.