Transition programs for students with intellectual disabilities (ED)

• Date: 04 June 2020
• Published date: 04 June 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31102

Federal Grants & Contracts ■ June 4, 2020 Page 3

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Grants alert (cont.)

Elementary and Secondary Education seeks

applications for the Well- Rounded Education through

Student-Centered Funding (SCF) Demonstration Grants

announcement to demonstrate model programs for

providing well-rounded education opportunities through

the development and implementation of SCF systems

based on weighted per-pupil allocations.

Deadline: July 10, 2020.

Funds: $3 million total for up to four awards ranging

from $500,000 to $1 million depending on the category.

Eligibility: Local educational agencies.

Areas: ED said an absolute priority is to develop and

implement an SCF system to provide well-rounded

education opportunities to educationally disadvantaged

students.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# ED-GRANTS-051120-001

Transition programs for students

with intellectual disabilities (ED)

Scope: The Education Department’s Office of

Postsecondary Education seeks applications for the

Transition Programs for Students with Intellectual

Disabilities into Higher Education (TPSID) announcement

to support model demonstration programs that promote

the successful transition of students with intellectual

disabilities into higher education and to enable

institutions of higher education (IHEs), or consortia of

IHEs, to create or expand high-quality, inclusive model

comprehensive transition and postsecondary programs

for students with intellectual disabilities.

Deadline: July 10, 2020.

Funds: $9.7 million for up to 25 awards ranging from

$100,000 to $500,000.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities.

Areas: ED said the department is particularly interested

in leveraging the resources of the TPSID program

to promote competitive integrated employment and

independent living outcomes for individuals with

intellectual disabilities. Specically, that this program

and its grantees present a unique opportunity to

expand the availability of high-quality transition and

postsecondary education programs, increasing the

number of individuals with intellectual disabilities who

are academically, functionally and socially prepared to

obtain and retain competitive employment in integrated

settings. There are three competitive priorities: Meeting

the Unique Needs of Students and Children with

Disabilities and/or Those with Unique Gifts and Talents;

Fostering Knowledge and Promoting the Development of

Skills That Prepare Students To Be Informed, Thoughtful

and Productive Individuals and Citizens; and Spurring

Investment in Qualied Opportunity Zones.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# ED-GRANTS-051120-002

Students with intellectual disabilities—

Transition programs center (ED)

Scope: The Education Department’s Office of

Postsecondary Education seeks applications for the

Coordinating Center for Transition Programs for Students

with Intellectual Disabilities into Higher Education

(TPSID-CC) announcement to support a national

coordinating center charged with conducting and

disseminating research on strategies to promote positive

academic, social, employment and independent living

outcomes for students with intellectual disabilities.

Deadline: July 10, 2020.

Funds: $2 million for one award.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities.

Areas: ED said the TPSID-CC will establish a

comprehensive research and evaluation protocol for

TPSID programs, administer a mentoring program

matching current and new TPSID grantees based

on areas of expertise and coordinate longitudinal

follow-up data collection and technical assistance to

TPSID grantees on programmatic components and

evidence-based practices. The TPSID-CC will also

provide technical assistance to build the capacity of

K–12 transition services and support postsecondary

education–inclusive practices, among other activities.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# ED-GRANTS-051120-003

Division of Integrative Organismal Systems

Core Programs (NSF)

Scope: The National Science Foundation seeks

applications for the Division of Integrative Organismal

Systems Core Programs announcement to support

research aimed at understanding why organisms are

structured the way they are and function as they do.

Deadline: Proposals are accepted at any time.

Funds: $60 million total.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: NSF said areas of inquiry include but are not

limited to developmental biology and the evolution of

developmental processes; nervous system development,

structure, modication, function and evolution;

biomechanics and functional morphology; physiological

processes; symbioses and microbial interactions;

interactions of organisms with biotic and abiotic

environments; plant and animal genomics; and animal

behavior. Proposals should focus on organisms as a

fundamental unit of biological organization.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# 20-536

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