Ed Dept tweaks Indian education grant deadlines
Published Date: 4/3/2025
Notice
Summary
The Department of Education fixed some details for the 2025 Indian Education Discretionary Grants and Professional Development Training Grants. They moved the webinar date, gave more time to apply, and tweaked some rules and scoring to make things clearer and fairer. These changes kick in on April 3, 2025, helping schools and educators get the best support possible.
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 1 mixed.
Scoring and selection-criteria changes
The Department changed selection criteria and point values: it removed the paragraph titled 'Quality of project personnel' (paragraph (d)); redesignated 'Adequacy of resources' and 'Quality of the management plan'; set 'Quality of the management plan' to be worth up to 25 points, with subcomponents now scored 'Up to 9 points', 'Up to 8 points', and a new '(3) The extent to which the time commitments of the project director and principal investigator and other key project personnel are appropriate and adequate' worth 'Up to 8 points'.
Application deadlines and webinar moved
The Department set new dates for the FY 2025 Professional Development (PD)-Training Grants competition: Updated application instructions available April 7, 2025; Pre-Application Webinar on April 8, 2025; Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply April 18, 2025; Deadline for Transmittal of Applications May 13, 2025; Deadline for Intergovernmental Review July 13, 2025. Applications originally available January 17, 2025, and the corrections are effective April 3, 2025.
Previously-submitted applications must be updated
The Department will not consider applications submitted before April 3, 2025. Applicants who already submitted an application must submit an updated application on or before May 13, 2025 for it to be reviewed. The Department will consider the application that is last submitted and timely received by 11:59:59 p.m., Eastern Time, on May 13, 2025.
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